Comparative wood anatomy and evolution of the Cunoniaceae

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COMPARATIVE WOOD ANATOMY AND EVOLUTION OF THE CUNONIACEAE1 William ο. Dickison2 INTRODUCTION The family Cunoniaceae consists of woody dicotyledonous plants almost exclu sively restricted to the Southern Hemisphere.

Nineteen genera currently recognized in the family are distributed in the Australasian and New Caledonian area. Lamanonia. Get this from a library. Comparative wood anatomy and evolution of the Cunoniaceae. [William C Dickison]. Dr Carlquist has made a career of studying wood of small diameter stems: shrubs, subshrubs, liana's, etc.

He has brought together an enormous body of knowledge on the variation in their wood anatomy and came up with many a theory to explain this. This book takes stock of his work up to Cited by: “Comparative Wood Anatomy” regards wood as a structure that evolves, that functions, rather than merely something to be identified.

And in this, the book merely follows the major contributors to understanding of wood structure. Comparative Wood Anatomy: Systematic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Aspects of Dicotyledon Wood. Comparative Wood Anatomy.: This book is not concerned directly with wood identification, although ability to recognize the wood features discussed in the preceding chapters is essential for work in wood identification.

Richly illustrated with light and scanning electron micrographs, Comparative Wood Anatomy clearly introduces dicotyledon wood in terms of cell types and their variations, pertinent literature, taxonomic dis- tribution of features, terminology, and methods for prepara- : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

About this book. Diagnostically illustrated with light and scanning electron micrographs, Comparative Wood Anatomy lucidly introduces dicotyledon wood in terms of cell types and their variations, pertinent literature, taxonomic distribution of features, terminology, and methods for preparation.

Two final chapters present syntheses: taxonomic achievements of wood studies; and the evolutionary relationship Brand: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Comparative wood anatomy of Eucryphia wilkiei and E. jinksii (Cunoniaceae): Two narrow endemics from Queensland, Australia Article in Australian Journal of Botany 52(6) January with 23 Reads.

Introduction. Diagnostically illustrated with light and scanning electron micrographs, Comparative Wood Anatomy lucidly introduces dicotyledon wood in terms of cell types and their variations, pertinent literature, taxonomic distribution of features, terminology, and methods for preparation.

Two final chapters present syntheses: taxonomic achievements of wood studies; and the evolutionary relationship. Wood (secondary xylem) is responsible for water transport and has been well-studied anatomically, ecologically, physiologically, and phylogenetically.

Comparative methods can reveal patterns of evolution for xylem traits using knowledge from the phylogenetic history of the taxa and the branching pattern of phylogenies.

Bignoniaceae (Lamiales) is a family of pantropical plants of various growth Cited by: From reviews of the previous edition: "In synthesis, this book presents itself as an immensely valuable expos on comparative wood anatomy and its bearing on systematic, ecological and evolutionary aspects of dicotyledon wood.".

Get this from a library. Comparative Wood Anatomy: Systematic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Aspects of Dicotyledon Wood. [Sherwin John Carlquist] -- The second edition has been completely revised and has in- corporated significant changes that have occured in wood anatomy over the past.

Abstract. The floral and vegetative anatomy of the small Australian genus Aphanopetalum were studied. Wood is described for the first time and is characterized by predominantly solitary pores, scalariform vessel element perforation plates with low bar numbers, imperforate tracheary elements with distinctly bordered pits, sparse axial parenchyma, and a combination of homocellular and Cited by: Dr Carlquist has made a career of studying wood of small diameter stems: shrubs, subshrubs, liana's, etc.

He has brought together an enormous body of knowledge on the variation in their wood anatomy and came up with many a theory to explain this. This book takes stock of his work up to /5(2). The wood anatomy of the Cunoniaceae is very variable, but closest similarity to the fossils generally lies with those members of the Cunoniaceae which exhibit a low level of evolutionary advancement, such as the tribe Cunonieae (cf.

Dickison,Engler, ) or the relatively primitive ‘Group I’ taxa of Ingle and Dadswell ().Cited by: Torrey Bot. Club () Dickison, W.C.

Dickison, Comparative wood anatomy and evolution of the Cunoniaceae Allertonia 2: () Greguss, P. Greguss, Holzanatomie der Europäischen LaubhÃlzer und Sträucher () Budapest Heimsch, C. Heimsch, Comparative anatomy of the secondary xylem in the â Cited by: Comparative methods can reveal patterns of evolution for xylem traits using knowledge from the phylogenetic history of the taxa and the branching pattern of phylogenies.

Bignoniaceae (Lamiales) is a family of pantropical plants of various growth habits that includes trees, shrubs, and lianas, which display diverse wood anatomies and for which.

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The fruit of Davidsonia pruriens F. Muell. drying and splitting at maturity into two indehiscent mericarps is re-defined as a schizocarpic didrupe. The sclerified mesendocarpic construction of the whole pericarp supports its classification as a drupe.

The peculiar fimbriate surface of the mericarp is caused by the destruction of parenchymatous exocarpic and mesocarpic tissues exposing Cited by: 6. Qualitative and quantitative wood anatomical data are given for two narrow Queensland endemic Eucryphia species, E.

wilkiei and Eucryphia jinksii Comparisons of wood anatomy of all extant Eucryphia taxa show that E. jinksii and E. wilkiei are distinct from each other, and other Eucryphia species. However, for both species characters relating to perforation plates, helical Author: Imogen Poole, Richard W.

Barnes, Richard W. Barnes. Book Description. This book challenges the assumption that morphological data are inherently unsuitable for phylogeny reconstruction, argues that both molecular and morphological phylogenies should play a major role in systematics, and provides the most comprehensive review of the comparative anatomy, homologies and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles of primates.

This book challenges the assumption that morphological data are inherently unsuitable for phylogeny reconstruction, argues that both molecular and morphological phylogenies should play a major role in systematics, and provides the most comprehensive review of the comparative anatomy, homologies and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral and upper liCited by: This chapter reviews the potential of comparative wood anatomy for climate reconstruction and for assessing the possible risks of global warming to extant woody plants.

There is growing evidence that wood evolution has been driven by functional adaptations to climate change in vessel-bearing woody angiosperms, giving rise to multiple.