Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons
Subtitle: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae) (The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants)
Contributors: H. Huber (Assistant); P.J. Rudall (Assistant); P.S. Stevens (Assistant); T. Stützel (Assistant); Klaus Kubitzki (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9783540640615
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Reference works; Taxonomy & systematics; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Botany; Flowering Plants (Angiospermae); Nature; Plants - General; Nature / Field Guide Books; Monocotyledons; Science / Botany; Classification
First sentence: Leaves equitant; stomata paracytic; vessels in roots and rhizomes with scalariform perforation; ethereal oil cells present; silica bodies and raphides lacking, but calcium oxalate present as prisms; anthers introrse; endosperm development cellular; seeds with both endosperm and perisperm, the latter starch-free and derived from the nucellar epidermis.