Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-563) and index.
Contents:
Relationships of angiosperms to other seed plants -- The age and diversity of early angiosperms : integration of the fossil record and molecular dates -- Phylogeny of angiosperms : an overview -- The ANA grade -- Magnoliids and chloranthales -- Character evolution : the ancestral angiosperm and general trends -- Monocots -- Eudicots (+ ceratophyllaceae) : introduction and early-diverging lineages -- Core eudicots : introduction, gunnerales, and dilleniales -- Superrosids -- Superasterids -- Angiosperm classification -- Parallel and convergent evolution -- Floral diversification -- The evolution of genome size -- Polyploidy -- Descriptions of major clades.
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