Abstract

Plant Systematics is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated text, covering the most up-to-date and essential paradigms, concepts, and terms required for a basic understanding of plant systematics.

This book contains numerous cladograms that illustrate the evolutionary relationships of major plant groups, with an emphasis on the adaptive significance of major evolutionary novelties. It provides descriptions and classifications of major groups of angiosperms, including over 90 flowering plant families; a comprehensive glossary of plant morphological terms, as well as appendices on botanical illustration and plant descriptions. Pedagogy includes review questions, exercises, and references that complement each chapter.

This text is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students in botany, plant taxonomy, plant systematics, plant pathology, ecology as well as faculty and researchers in any of the plant sciences.

• The Henry Allan Gleason Award of The New York Botanical Garden, awarded for "Outstanding recent publication in the field of plant taxonomy, plant ecology, or plant geography" (2006)
• Contains numerous cladograms that illustrate the evolutionary relationships of major plant groups, with an emphasis on the adaptive significance of major evolutionary novelties
• Provides descriptions and classifications of major groups of angiosperms, including over 90 flowering plant families
• Includes a comprehensive glossary of plant morphological terms as well as appendices on botanical illustration and plant description

"The botanical community has been waiting for a textbook like this for a long time – the wait is finally over!" - Kenneth M. Cameron, The New York Botanical Garden, U.S.A.
"This book...will inspire readers to consider joining the ranks of a new generation of plant systematists. - Bruce G. Baldwin, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
"Mike Simpson has authored a comprehensive, up-to-date, user-friendly, and profusely illustrated textbook that will facilitate the teaching of plant systematics...." - Wayne J. Elisens, University of Oklahoma, Norman, U.S.A.