Cycad classification : concepts and recommendations /

• Corporate Author: Cycad Classification Concepts Workshop
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
• Subjects: Cycads > Classification.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Biological Resources (Plant); Plant Ecology.; Taxonomy and Evolution.; Cycadopsida.; Endangered species.; Evolution.; Geographical distribution.; Identification.; Nature conservation.; Taxonomy.; Electronic books.
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This book presents the current state of our knowledge of the systematics of the approximately 300 species of cycads. It has been developed from 15 papers presented at the conference in Miami. Guidelines are presented for the designation of species, species boundaries and species groupings, thus clar...

Table of Contents:

• 'We Hold these Truths ... ' / Terrence Walters, Roy Osborne and Don Decker
• Saving Ghosts? The Implications of Taxonomic Uncertainty and Shifting Infrageneric Concepts in the Cycadales for Red Listing and Conservation Planning / John Donaldson
• Character Evolution, Species Recognition and Classification Concepts in the Cycadaceae / Ken D. Hill
• Morphological Characters Useful in Determining Species Boundaries in Cycas (Cycadaceae) / Anders Lindström
• Comments on Cycas, Dyerocycas and Epicycas (Cycadaceae) / Chia-Jui Chen, Ken D. Hill and Dennis Wm. Stevenson
• Classification Concepts in Encephalartos (Zamiaceae) / Piet Vorster
• Classification Concepts in Macrozamia (Zamiaceae) from Eastern Australia / Paul I. Forster
• Classification Concepts in Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae) / Loran M. Whitelock
• Relationships and Phytogeography in Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae) / Andrew P. Vovides, Miguel A. Pérez-Farrera, Dolores González and Sergio Avendaño
• A Morphometric Analysis of the Ceratozamia norstogii Complex (Zamiaceae) / Miguel A. Pérez-Farrera, Andrew P. Vovides, Luis Hernández-Sandoval, Dolores González and Mahinda Martínez
• Hypotheses on the Relationship between Biogeography and Speciation in Dioon (Zamiaceae) / Timothy J. Gregory and Jeffrey Chemnick
• Molecular Phylogeny of Zamia (Zamiaceae) / Paolo Caputo, Salvatore Cozzolino, Paolo De Luca, Aldo Moretti and Dennis Wm. Stevenson
• Systematics of Meso-American Zamia (Zamiaceae) / Bart Schutzman
• Zamiaceae of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru / Dennis Wm. Stevenson
• In Search of the True Tree : Guidelines for Classification / Roy Osborne and Terrence Walters.