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Takhtajan, Armen Flowering

The author is one of the greatest botanists of the 20th century The book presents his most recent last views and understanding of plant The author has a very wide following Young scientists/students will appreciate the opportunity to learn author’s views Young scientists/students will see how Takhtajan’s system is used by other botanists is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants. This book culminates almost sixty years of the scientist's research of the origin and classification of Springer the flowering plants. It presents a continuation of Dr. Takhtajan’s earlier publications including 2nd ed. 2009, XLV, 871 p. “Systema Magnoliophytorum” (1987), (in Russian), and “Diversity and Classification of Flowering 2nd edition Plants” (1997), (in English). In his latest book, the author presents a concise and significantly revised system of plant classification (‘Takhtajan system’) based on the most recent studies in , embryology, phytochemistry, cytology, molecular biology and palynology. Flowering plants are divided into two classes: Magnoliopsida (or ) includes 8 Printed book subclasses, 126 orders, c. 440 families, almost 10,500 genera, and no less than 195,000 Hardcover species; and class (or ) includes 4 subclasses, 31 orders, 120 Printed book families, more than 3,000 genera, and about 65,000 species.This book contains a detailed Hardcover description of plant orders, and descriptive keys to plant families providing characteristic ISBN 978-1-4020-9608-2 features of the families and their differences. £ 249,99 | CHF 354,00 | 299,99 € | 329,99 € (A) | 320,99 € (D) online at springer.com/booksellers Available Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH Customer Service Discount group Tiergartenstrasse 15-17 Science (SC) 69121 Heidelberg Product category Germany Monograph T: +49 (0)6221 345-4301 Other renditions [email protected] Softcover ISBN 978-94-017-7735-3

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