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Title

Modern methods in plant taxonomy; edited by V. H. Heywood.

Author

Conference on Modern Methods in Plant Taxonomy (1967 : University of Liverpool)

Publication

London, New York, Published for the Botanical Society of the British Isles and the Linnean Society of London by Academic P., 1968.

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Additional Authors

• Heywood, V. H. (Vernon Hilton), 1927-2022
• Heywood, V. H. (Vernon Hilton), 1927-
• Botanical Society of the British Isles
• Linnean Society of London

Description

xv, 312 p. : illus., maps.; 24 cm.

Summary

A comprehensive review of the present state of knowledge in plant taxonomy by well-known experts in the field.

Series Statement

Botanical Society of the British Isles. Conference report ; no. 10

Uniform Title

B.S.B.I. conference reports no. 10.

Subject

• Plants > Congresses
• Plants > congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Organized by the Botanical Society of the British Isles and the Linnean Society of London; held 11-12 Sept., 1967.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Plant Taxonomy Today / V. H. Heywood -- 2. The Relevance of the National Herbaria to Modern Taxonomic Research in the United States of America / A. Cronquist -- 3. The Relevance of the National Herbaria to Modern Taxonomic Research / J. P. M. Brenan -- 4. Regional and Local Herbaria / J. McNeill -- 5. Current Developments in Systematic Plant Anatomy / C. R. Metcalfe -- 6. The Karyotype in Taxonomy / D. M. Moore -- 7. Fertility, Sterility and the Species Problem / O. T. Solbrig -- 8. Phenotypic Plasticity with Particular Reference to Three Amphibious Plant Species / C. D. K. Cook -- 9. Hybridization, Taxonomy and Evolution / W. H. Wagner, Jr. -- 10. Chemosystematics with Emphasis on Systematic Serology / D. E. Fairbrothers -- 11. Botanical Problems of Numerical Taxonomy / J. Cullen -- 12. On Property Structure, Numerical Taxonomy and Data Handling / M. B. Dale -- 13. Numerical Taxonomic Studies in the Genus Sarcostemma R.BR. (Asclepiadaceae) / M. P Johnson and R. W. Holm -- 14. Observations on a Computer-Aided Survey of the Jamaican Species of Columnea and Alloplectus / W. T. Stearn -- 15. The Scale of Genecological Differentiation / D. A. Wilkins -- 16. The Role of Geographical and Ecological Studies in Taxonomy / F. J. F. Fisher -- 17. Geographical and Ecological Aspects of Infraspecific Differentiation / F. Ehrendorfer

LCCN

^^^68009103^//r84

OCLC

• 161604
• SCSB-10246194

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