Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons : Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Caryophyllales

When more than two decades ago this series was planned, classi?cation at the level of higher categories was rather contentious and considered to be of little concern for this book series. Through the advancement of molecular systematics within the last decade, the outlines of a phylogenetically based family scheme of angiosperms have become ava- able. This phylogenetic scheme for the ?rst time made meaningful broader comparisons feasible and is adopted here as a guideline for the circumscription of major blocks of families. However,due to the fragility of formal higher level classi?cation only one ca- gory above the rank of family,that of order,will be used in this volume. Despite the great progress in the understanding of broader phylogenetic relationships made during the last years, the circumscription of many families, let alone of genera, is still far from being settled and, in the contributions to this volume, the arrangement of genera within families is often phenetic rather than phylogenetic. This dif?culty is p- ticularly acute in larger families, and despite much molecular work that has been c- ducted in Cruciferae,the authors of that family account to this volume felt it premature to provide a formal subdivision of the group. Also,in other families,and particularly in Malvaceae-Malvoideae, the arrangement and circumscription of genera, for lack of a better alternative,are largely phenetic. Nevertheless,it is hoped that the classi?cation p- sented here is an advance over what had been known previously. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Introduction to Expanded Caryophyllales....Pages 1-4 Conspectus of Families of Expanded Caryophyllales....Pages 5-6 Introduction to Capparales....Pages 7-10 Conspectus of the Families of Capparales....Pages 11-11 Introduction to Malvales....Pages 12-16 Conspectus of the Families of Malvales....Pages 17-18 General References....Pages 19-20 Akaniaceae....Pages 21-24 Ancistrocladaceae....Pages 25-27 Asteropeiaceae....Pages 28-29 Bataceae....Pages 30-32 Bixaceae....Pages 33-35 Capparaceae....Pages 36-56 Caricaceae....Pages 57-61 Cistaceae....Pages 62-70 Cochlospermaceae....Pages 71-74 Cruciferae....Pages 75-174 Diegodendraceae....Pages 175-177 Dioncophyllaceae....Pages 178-181 Dipterocarpaceae....Pages 182-197 Droseraceae....Pages 198-202 Drosophyllaceae....Pages 203-205 Emblingiaceae....Pages 206-208 Frankeniaceae....Pages 209-212 Gyrostemonaceae....Pages 213-217 Koeberliniaceae....Pages 218-219 Limnanthaceae....Pages 220-224 Malvaceae....Pages 225-311 Moringaceae....Pages 312-314 Muntingiaceae....Pages 315-319 Nepenthaceae....Pages 320-324 Neuradaceae....Pages 325-328 Pentadiplandraceae....Pages 329-331 Physenaceae....Pages 332-333 Resedaceae....Pages 334-338 Rhabdodendraceae....Pages 339-341 Salvadoraceae....Pages 342-344 Sarcolaenaceae....Pages 345-352 Setchellanthaceae....Pages 353-354 Simmondsiaceae....Pages 355-358 Sphaerosepalaceae....Pages 359-362 Tamaricaceae....Pages 363-368 Tapisciaceae....Pages 369-370 Tepuianthaceae....Pages 371-372 Thymelaeaceae....Pages 373-396 Tovariaceae....Pages 397-399 Tropaeolaceae....Pages 400-404 Hydrastidaceae....Pages 405-409 Back Matter....Pages 411-418 This encyclopaedia contains a comprehensive treatment of the taxonomy of the families and genera of ferns and seed plants. The present volume, the fifth in this series, deals with three major groups of dicotyledons, the Capparales, Malvales, and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. The taxonomy of these groups, which comprise 40 families and 752 genera, is based on the results of the most recent research. This is especially true of the families Cruciferae and Malvaceae, to which more than two thirds of the genera treated in this volume belong. The integration of morphological information and the results of molecular studies have led to a revised classification and have opened the way to an understanding of character evolution in these strongly diversified groups