Cycad Classification: Concepts and Recommendations

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Presents the classification of approximately 300 species of cycads, and includes contributions from leading researchers from Australia, China, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and the USA. The book provides guidelines for the designation of species, species boundaries and species groupings.

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Full title :Cycad Classification : Concepts and Recommendations.

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Publication Date:2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):CAB International
Place of Publication:Wallingford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

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Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms Encountered in Cycad Systematics.

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Description:1 online resource (276 pages)

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ISBN:0851997414, 9780851997414
oclc:on1058068341
LC Classification:QK494 .C93 2004eb
Dewey Decimal:585/.9/012

Contributors; About the Editors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 'We Hold these Truths ... '; 2 Saving Ghosts? The Implications of Taxonomic Uncertainty and Shifting Infrageneric Concepts in the Cycadales for Red Listing and Conservation Planning; 3 Character Evolution, Species Recognition and Classification Concepts in the Cycadaceae; 4 Morphological Characters Useful in Determining Species Boundaries in Cycas (Cycadaceae); 5 Comments on Cycas, Dyerocycas and Epicycas (Cycadaceae); 6 Classification Concepts in Encephalartos (Zamiaceae).

7 Classification Concepts in Macrozamia (Zamiaceae) from Eastern Australia8 Classification Concepts in Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae); 9 Relationships and Phytogeography in Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae); 10 A Morphometric Analysis of the Ceratozamia norstogii Complex (Zamiaceae); 11 Hypotheses on the Relationship between Biogeography and Speciation in Dioon (Zamiaceae); 12 Molecular Phylogeny of Zamia (Zamiaceae); 13 Systematics of Meso-American Zamia (Zamiaceae); 14 Zamiaceae of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru; 15 In Search of the True Tree: Guidelines for Classification; Appendix 1: The World List of Cycads.