The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 10 Flowering Plants: Eudicots - Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae

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This volume, the tenth in the series, comprises modern treatments for the families and genera of the eudicot orders Sapindales and Cucurbitales. The circumscription of the orders, families and genera conforms to the most recent systematic studies. The family treatments include descriptions of the families and the genera, genera classification keys, discussions of relationships and data on their morphology, reproductive biology, distribution, ecology and economic importance.

Sapindales and Cucurbitales, as understood in this volume, comprise 16 families with 637 genera and roughly 9,240 species. Sapindales include large tropical and southern temperate tree families such as the Anacardiaceae, Sapindaceae (these in the modern circumscription, which includes Aceraceae and Hippocastanaceae), Meliaceae and Rutaceae, which have long been considered to be closely related. Cucurbitales represent a relatively new ordinal concept; apart from some small woody groups, the order contains two large families, Cucurbitaceae and Begoniaceae, which are predominantly, and likely basically, herbaceous.

A detailed treatment of the tropical and southern temperate woody family Myrtaceae (itself comprising 142 genera and 6,700 species) is an addendum to the treatment of the Myrtales in Vol. IX of this series.

Contents

Introduction to Sapindales K. Kubitzki
Introduction to Cucurbitales K. Kubitzki
Anacardiaceae S.K. Pell, J.D. Mitchell, A.J. Miller, and T.A. Lobova
Anisophyllaceae A.E. Schwarzbach and P.B. Tomlinson
Begoniaceae J.J.F.E. de Wilde
Biebersteiniaceae A.N. Muellner
Burseraceae D. Daly with M.M. Harley, M.-C. Martnez-Habibe and A. Weeks
Coriariaceae K. Kubitzki
Corynocarpaceae K. Kubitzki
Cucurbitaceae H. Schaefer and S.S. Renner
Datiscaceae S. Swensen and K. Kubitzki
Kirkiaceae A.N. Muellner
Meliaceae D.J. Mabberley
Myrtaceae Peter G. Wilson
Nitrariaceae M.C. Sheahan
Rutaceae K. Kubitzki, A.J. Kallunki, and M. Duretto with Paul G. Wilson
Sapindaceae P. Acevedo-Rodrguez, P. van Welzen, F. Adema, and R.W.J.M. van der Ham
Simaroubaceae J.W. Clayton
Tetradiclidaceae M.C. Sheahan

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