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and Principles of
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• Extensively revised
treatments of 13 families
that have undergone
significant changes in
circumscription.
• A greatly expanded
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Photo Gallery of Vascular Plants
A Companion to Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic
Approach, Fourth Edition
Walter S. Judd, Daniel L. Nickrent, Kenneth R. Robertson, J. Richard Abbott, Christopher S. Campbell, Barbara
S. Carlsward, Tanja M. Schuster, Kurt M. Neubig, Scott
Zona, Michael J. Donoghue, and Elizabeth A. Kellogg
The Photo Gallery of Vascular Plants has been greatly
expanded for the Fourth Edition of Plant Systematics, and
is now available online. Over 9,700 color photos illustrating the diagnostic characters of (and variability within)
the vascular plant families covered in the text, including
many images showing floral and fruit dissections, are now
included in the site. The Photo Gallery also includes an
illustrated glossary of plant terminology. Each new textbook includes an access code for the site, and access may
also be purchased separately.
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Plant Systematics, Fourth Edition
Walter S. Judd, Christopher S. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Peter
ABOUT THE BOOK
A comprehensive introduction to vascular plant phylogeny, the Fourth
Edition of Plant Systematics reflects changes in the circumscription of
several families in order to represent monophyletic groups, following the
classification of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (and recent phylogenetic analyses). Appendices cover botanical nomenclature as well as field
and herbarium methodology. The text is copiously illustrated, using in
large part the informative analytical drawings developed as part of the
Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States project.
Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach, Fourth Edition is appropriate for any course devoted to the systematics of angiosperms or
vascular plants and, secondarily, for local flora courses. The text assumes
no prerequisites other than introductory botany or biology.
November 2015 • 575 pages (est.)
337 illustrations • 27 plates
ISBN 978-1-60535-389-0 • casebound
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New to the Fourth Edition
• Chapter 2, Methods and
Principles of Biological
Systematics, has been completely rewritten with information on molecular (DNA-based)
systematics now fully integrated—a change required by the increasing importance of molecular methods in the construction
of phylogenetic hypotheses. The
chapter includes updated and
expanded coverage of maximum
likelihood and Bayesian methods, algorithmic approaches to
tree construction, along with
parsimony methods, and new
sections on mapping characters
on trees and dating phylogenies.
• Sections on speciation and
species concepts have been
rewritten to incorporate extensive recent research on these
topics.
•E
xtensive revisions to 13 families that have undergone significant changes in circumscription
have been implemented. Revisions include the breakup of
the non-monophyletic “Woodsiaceae,” “Portulacaceae,” and
“Clusiaceae,” the segregation
of Cleomaceae and Capparaceae
from Brassicaceae s.l, Cabombaceae from Nymphaeaceae, Nyssaceae from Cornaceae, and Viscaceae from Santalaceae s.l. In
addition, Illiciaceae are included
in Schisandraceae, Hydnoraceae
and Lactoridaceae in Aristolochiaceae, Centrolepidaceae and
Anarthriaceae in Restionaceae,
Turneraceae in Passifloraceae,
Zannichelliaceae in Potamogetonaceae, and Memecylaceae in
Melastomataceae. Several familial
clades are for the first time
included in the book: Balsaminaceae, Chrysobalanaceae, Fouquieriaceae, Garryaceae, Goodeniaceae, Hypoxidaceae, Musaceae,
Phrymaceae, Pittosporaceae, and
Thymelaeaceae.
CONTENTS
dition
F. Stevens, and Michael J. Donoghue
THE AUTHORS
Walter S. Judd is Distinquished Professor Emeritus in the Department
of Biology at the University of Florida.
Christopher S. Campbell is Professor Emeritus of Botany at the
University of Maine.
Elizabeth A. Kellogg is a Member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science
Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Peter F. Stevens is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology
at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and Curator of the Missouri
Botanical Garden.
Michael J. Donoghue is Yale University’s Sterling Professor of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Botany at the Peabody Museum.
• Higher-level phylogenetic relationships have been updated on the
basis of recently published analyses,
and these relationships are reflected
in the authors’ use of names; e.g.,
within the flowering plants we now
recognize Mesangiospermae, Pentapetalae, and the Superrosid and
Superasterid clades.
• Updates to all chapters and to
nearly all cladograms take into
account recent taxonomic methods and hypotheses. In addition,
several new cladograms and figures
have been added. Since most
families have received new phylogenetic study since the previous
edition, the summaries of phylogenetic patterns within each of these
familial clades and their putative
synapomorphies have been updated, including many changes in
generic circumscription.
• A greatly expanded online Photo
Gallery of Vascular Plants includes over 9,700 photographs
illustrating the diagnostic characters
and morphological diversity of each
of the familial clades covered in the
textbook. The photos also include
taxa of both temperate and tropical
distribution, economically important species, and examples of important anatomical characteristics.
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1. The Science of Plant Systematics
What Do We Mean by Plant?
What Do We Mean by Systematics?
The Phylogenetic Approach
The Practice of Plant Systematics
Why Is Systematics Important?
Aims and Organization of This Book
2. Methods and Principles of
Biological Systematics
Discovering Phylogeny: How
Phylogenetic Trees Are Constructed
• Evolutionary Trees and What They
Depict. Reading the Tree.
• Rooting
• Homoplasy
• Tree Building: Clustering Methods
and Neighbor-Joining
• Models of Evolution
• Should You Believe the Tree? Bootstrapping and Comparison of Trees
• Methods That Use an Optimality
Criterion
° Parsimony
° Maximum Likelihood
° Bayesian Methods
• Comparing Trees from Different
Methods and Sources of Data
Using Phylogenetic Trees
• Constructing a Classification
° Grouping: Named Groups Are
Monophyletic
° Naming: Not All Groups Are
Named
° Ranking: Ranks Are Arbitrary
° Comparing Phylogenetic
Classifications with Those
Derived Using Other
Taxonomic Methods
• Describing Evolution: Mapping
Characters on Trees
• Dating Phylogenies
3. Classification and System in
Flowering Plants: Historical
Background
Classification, Nature, and Stability
Botany, Classification, and Biology
Understanding Relationships
Classifications and Memory
The Formation of Higher Taxa
Plant Groupings over the Years
4. Taxonomic Evidence: Structural
and Biochemical Characters
Morphology
Pollination Biology
Inflorescences, Fruits, and Seeds
Anatomy
Embryology
Chromosomes
Palynology
Secondary Metabolites
Proteins
5. The Evolution of Plant Diversity
Plant Diversity Is the Result of Evolution
Variation in Plant Populations and
Species
Speciation
Origins of Reproductive Isolating
Barriers
Species Concepts
6. A
n Overview of Green Plant
Phylogeny
Endosymbiotic Events
“Algae”
Viridophytes (Green Plants)
Embryophytes (Land Plants)
Tracheophytes (Vascular Plants)
Spermatophytes (Seed Plants)
Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)
7. Lycophytes, Ferns, and
Gymnosperms
Lycophytes
• Lycopodiales
Monilophytes (Ferns)
• Psilotales
• Ophioglossales
• Equisetales
• Leptosporangiate Ferns
° Osmundales
° Salviniales
° Cyatheales
° Polypodiales
• Eupolypods I
• Eupolypods II
Gymnosperms
• Cycadales
• Ginkgoales
• Coniferales
• Gnetales
8. Phylogenetic Relationships of
Angiosperms
ANA Grade (Amborellales,
Nymphaeales, Austrobaileyales)
• Amborellales
•N
ymphaeales
•A
ustrobaileyales
Mesangiospermae (including
Magnoliids, Monocots, Eudicots)
•C
hloranthales (of uncertain position,
possibly sister to Magnoliids)
•M
agnoliid Clade (Magnoliidae)
° Magnoliales
°Laurales
° Canellales
° Piperales
•C
eratophyllales (placement
uncertain)
•M
onocots (Monocotyledoneae)
° Acorales
° Alismatales
° Liliales
° Asparagales
° Dioscoreales
° Commelinoid Monocots
(Commelinidae)
• Arecales
• Commelinales
•Poales
• Zingiberales
•E
udicots (Eudicotyledoneae)
° “Basal Tricolpates”
• Ranunculales
• Proteales
• Trochodendrales
• Buxales
C
ore
Eudicots (Gunneridae)
°
• Gunnerales
P
entapetalae
(includes Super°
rosids and Superasterids)
• Superrosidae (includes
Saxifragales and Rosid
Clade)
• Saxifragales
• Rosid Clade (Rosidae)
° Vitales
° Fabids (or Eurosids I; Fabidae)
• Zygophyllales
• Oxalidales
• Celastrales
• Malpighiales
• Fabales
• Rosales
• Cucurbitales
• Fagales
M
alvids
(or Euro°
sids II; Malvidae)
• Geraniales
• Myrtales
• Brassicales
• Malvales
• Picramniales
• Sapindales
• Superasteridae (Caryophyllales, Santalales, and
Asterid Clade)
• Caryophyllales
• Santalales
• Asterid Clade (=Sympetalae or Asteridae)
° Cornales
° Ericales
° Lamiids (or
Euasterids I,
Lamiidae)
• Garryales
• Solanales
• Gentianales
• Boraginales
• Lamiales
° Campanulids (or
Euasterids II;
Campanulidae)
• Aquifoliales
• Apiales
• Dipsacales
• Asterales
Appendix 1. Botanical Nomenclature
Appendix 2. Specimen Preparation and Identification
Glossary
Taxonomic Index
Subject Index
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