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METCALFE AND CHALK'S ANATOMY OF THE DICOTYLEDONS AND ITS REVISION
Author(s) -
Metcalfe C. R.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1218643
Subject(s) - taxonomy (biology) , taxon , biology , nomenclature , comparative anatomy , subject (documents) , systematics , zoology , paleontology , library science , computer science
Summary A second edition of Metcalfe and Chalk's Anatomy of the Dicotyledons is now being prepared more than 20 years after the first edition was published. The circumstances that led up to the publication of the first edition are described, partly for their historical interest and partly to show the status of systematic anatomy in relation to taxonomy that existed at the time. The second edition is being expanded to include not only the additional data concerning the histology of the vegetative organs that have accumulated since the first edition was published, but also to cover briefly the main taxonomic views concerning the interrelationships of families and other higher taxa that depend on other laboratory disciplines such as the study of palynology, embryology and chemotaxonomy etc., all of which are now accepted as forming parts of the general subject of taxonomy. In the second edition the arrangement of the families will be according to Takhtajan's system.