TY - JOUR
AU - Anderson, William R.
AB - 268 BRITTONIA [VOL. 34 apocarpy in the Alismatiflorae reflects survival of a primitive feature (as usually supposed), or an evolutionary reversal from a syncarpous ancestry within the monocots. Certainly their views must be taken seriously. They are in as good a position as anyone to indulge in phylogenetic speculation about the group, and in a far better position than most. The authors have succeeded very well in what they set out to do. Their book will be an indispensable reference for anyone concerned with the taxonomy and phylogeny of monocotyledons. I must also point out what the book is not. It is not a general taxonomic treatment of monocots. There are no keys, and no descriptions of families. The authors, both eminent taxonomists, are indeed curiously casual about some of the more formal aspects of taxonomy and nomenclature. It is jarring to see (on p. 24) the Magnoliophyta, Pinophyta, Ginkgophyta, and Cycadophyta ex- plicitly designated as names of classes. In the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature the ending -phyta is reserved for divisions. The book is neither a cladistic nor a numerical analysis. After some un- enthusiastic comments (on p. 333-4) about Hennigian cladistics, the authors indicate on p. 
TI - An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants
JF - "Brittonia"
DO - 10.2307/2806386
DA - 1982-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/an-integrated-system-of-classification-of-flowering-plants-5gara7rtQl
SP - 268
EP - 270
VL - 34
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -