glossary for plant phylogeny

Peter Stevens peter.stevens at mobot.org
Mon Feb 9 15:32:42 EST 2004


You should be able to get to the fl. pl. glossary as it stands at 
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/glossary1.html

It is designed to go in the vacant space at a flowering plants 
(subfamilies and above) website, 
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/

Obviously, there are far too many mistakes at present for me not to 
be other than embarrassed.  Note that the hierarchy for the terms is 
not yet worked out fully, but it will not be a strict hierarchy. 
That is, it may have terms at a particular hierachical level which is 
the one that people may be thinking of when they are actually using 
the site; there is also what may be the "true" hierarchical position.

Note that the glossary is for the most part aimed at explicating text 
that deals with flowering plants and higher level relationships, so 
many more species level shape, texture and indumentum terms are 
either absent or only briefly dealt with (but we have Stearn's 
"Botanical Latin" for that); pollen terms are also particularly 
incomplete.

P.

Don't worry about typos, but do let me know of anything you consider 
more major, whether sins of omission or commission.  I will have a 
plant chemist check that side of things,  I have only just started 
with trial-by-use...



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