The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 6: Flowering Plants: Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales

" ... A fine volume of a series that is timely and highly useful for any biologist interested in flowering plants." (Plant Systematics and Evolution) "This work attains a notable scientific level and is particularly directed toward upper level students and botanical researchers." (Advances in Horticultural Sciences) Front Matter....Pages I-XI Introduction to Families Treated in This Volume....Pages 1-11 General References....Pages 12-13 Actinidiaceae....Pages 14-19 Balsaminaceae....Pages 20-25 Brunelliaceae....Pages 26-28 Celastraceae....Pages 29-64 Cephalotaceae....Pages 65-68 Clethraceae....Pages 69-73 Connaraceae....Pages 74-81 Cornaceae....Pages 82-90 Cunoniaceae....Pages 91-111 Curtisiaceae....Pages 112-113 Cyrillaceae....Pages 114-116 Diapensiaceae....Pages 117-121 Dirachmaceae....Pages 122-124 Ebenaceae....Pages 125-130 Elaeagnaceae....Pages 131-134 Elaeocarpaceae....Pages 135-144 Ericaceae....Pages 145-194 Fouquieriaceae....Pages 195-198 Grubbiaceae....Pages 199-201 Hydrangeaceae....Pages 202-215 Hydrostachyaceae....Pages 216-220 Lecythidaceae....Pages 221-232 Lepidobotryaceae....Pages 233-235 Lissocarpaceae....Pages 236-238 Loasaceae....Pages 239-254 Maesaceae....Pages 255-257 Marcgraviaceae....Pages 258-265 Myrsinaceae....Pages 266-281 Napoleonaeaceae....Pages 282-284 Oxalidaceae....Pages 285-290 Parnassiaceae....Pages 291-296 Pellicieraceae....Pages 297-299 Polemoniaceae....Pages 300-312 Primulaceae....Pages 313-319 Rhamnaceae....Pages 320-338 Roridulaceae....Pages 339-342 Rosaceae....Pages 343-386 Samolaceae....Pages 387-389 Sapotaceae....Pages 390-421 Sarraceniaceae....Pages 422-425 Scytopetalaceae....Pages 426-429 Sladeniaceae....Pages 431-433 Styracaceae....Pages 434-442 Symplocaceae....Pages 443-449 Ternstroemiaceae....Pages 450-460 Tetrameristaceae....Pages 461-462 Theaceae....Pages 463-471 Theophrastaceae....Pages 472-478 Back Matter....Pages 479-489 In the present volume - the sixth of this series - 48 flowering plant families comprising a total of 712 genera are treated. They represent the newly designed eurosid orders Celastrales, Oxalidales and Rosales and the asterid orders Cornales and Ericales. The recognition of these ordinal concepts is the result of numerous recent gene sequence analyses which, for the first time in angiosperm systematics, have provided a reliable higher order classification. The concept of Ericales is largely expanded beyond its conventional limits to make it monophyletic and now includes parts of the erstwhile Ebenales, Lecythidales, Primulales and other orders. The revised circumscription of families such as Ericaceae, Celastraceae and Cunoniaceae owes much to the application of recent molecular studies, and for the same reason in the primulalean families, a complete remodeling of family limits is proposed Compiled and written for advanced students, this encyclopedia contains a comprehensive treatment of the taxonomy of the families and genera of ferns and seed plants. The present volume, the sixth in this series, deals with five groups of dicotyledons, the Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, and Ericales, comprising 48 families. In traditional classifications Celastrales comprised families of usually woody plants with simple leaves, haplostemonous flowers with a disk and apotropous ovules which, in view of this character combination, formed an utterly heterogeneous assemblage.