Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Asterales [Paperback]

This volume contains a complete systematic treatment of the flowering plant order Asterales. This comprises 12 families with approx. 1,720 genera and about 26,300 species. Identification keys are provided for all genera, and likely phylogenetic relationships are discussed extensively. The wealth of information contained in this volume makes it an indispensable source for all working in the fields of pure and applied plant sciences.

Asterales: Introduction and Conspectus J.W. Kadereit

Alseuosmiaceae J. K?rehed

Argophyllaceae J. K?rehed

Calyceraceae F.H. Hellwig

Campanulaceae T.G. Lammers

Carpodetaceae M.H.G. Gustafsson

Compositae

Introduction with Key to the Tribes C. Jeffrey

I. Tribe Barnadesieae T.F. Stuessy and E. Urtubey

II. Tribe Mutisieae D.J.N. Hind

III. Tribe Cardueae A. Susanna and N. Garcia-Jacas

Carduoid Genera of Uncertain PlacementC. Jeffrey

IV. Tribe Gymnarrheneae C. Jeffrey

V. Tribe Moquinieae H. Robinson

VI. Tribe Vernonieae H. Robinson

VII. Tribe Liabeae V.A. Funk, H. Robinson and M.O. Dillon

VIII. Tribe Cichorieae H.W. Lack

IX. Tribe Gundelieae C. Jeffrey

X. Tribe Arctotideae P.O. Karis

XI. Tribe Corymbieae B. Nordenstam

XII. Tribe Senecioneae B. Nordenstam

XIII. Tribe Calenduleae B. Nordenstam

XIV. Tribe Gnaphalieae R.J. Bayer, I. Breitwieser, J. Ward and

C. Puttock

XV. Tribe Astereae G. Nesom and H. Robinson

XVI. Tribe Anthemideae Ch. Oberprieler, R. Vogt and L.E. Watson

XVII. Tribe Inuleae A.A. Anderberg and P. Elden?s

Key to the Tribes of thel³J