Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid Families

This volume — the first of this series dealing with angiosperms — comprises the treatments of 73 families, representing three major blocks of the dicotyledons: magnoliids, centrosperms, and hamamelids. These blocks are generally recognized as subclasses in modern textbooks and works of reference. We consider them a convenient means for structuring the hundreds of di­ cotyledon families, but are far from taking them at face value for biological, let alone mono­ phyletic entities. Angiosperm ...