| Description |
1 online resource (150 pages, 32 pages of plates) : illustrations, color plates |
| Contents |
Historical overview -- Material and methods -- Morphological description. Shoot system ; Short shoot development ; Cataphylls ; Short-shoot leaf (prophyll) ; Long shoot development ; Foliage leaves ; Leaf epidermis ; Leaf glands ; Floral structures ; Staminate structures ; Pollen grains ; Pistillate structures ; Placenta and ovules ; Fruit and seed ; Summary of morphological findings -- Fossil allies. Eocercidiphyllites plant ; Comparison with extant Cercidiphyllum and fossil allies ; Other extinct cercidiphyllids ; Cretaceous ranunculids ; Ternaricarpites, a possible ranunculid precursor of early cerciciphyllids -- Discussion of Cercidiphyllum morphology. Shoot system ; Leaves and prophylls ; Glands and stomata ; Typology of floral structures ; Developmental evidence of flower -- inflorescence transformations ; Preflower ; Carpel typology ; Ovule -- gland homeomorphism ; Seed evolution ; Staminate two-stage flower ; Conversion, convergence and ectopic developments ; Taxonomic implications -- Relevance to general problems of plant evolution and development. Morphogenesis and organographic rules ; Angiosperm origin and phylogeny ; Tendencies of floral evolution ; Neotenic transformation ; Inference from paleobotanical data -- Conclusion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Angiosperms.
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Angiosperms -- Morphology
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Plants, Fossil.
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Plants -- Evolution.
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Magnoliopsida
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Angiospermae (division)
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SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
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Angiosperms
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Angiosperms -- Morphology
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Plants -- Evolution
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Plants, Fossil
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789546425447 |
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9546425443 |
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