Introduction To Cryptogamic Botany - Softcover

Miles Joseph Berkeley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461774240 ISBN 13: 9780461774245

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Introduction To Cryptogamic Botany by Miles Joseph Berkeley. This study offers a systematic, morphology?driven survey of cryptogams, with a central focus on ferns and their allies. It presents a hierarchical classification that traverses major cryptogamic groups, detailing tribes, families, and genera and weighing affinities with notes on the diagnostic value of features such as sori, indusia, vein patterns, margins, and frond architecture. Across groups the author argues that traditional characters are not always decisive and that similar venation and form can blur boundaries. Major fern lineages are treated—Polypodiaceae, Vittariaceae, Adianticeae, Dicksoniaceae, Davalliaceae, Aspleniaceae, Pteridaceae, Gleicheniaceae—each described for diagnostic traits and biogeography. The text also surveys Ophioglossaceae, Equisetales, Marsileales, Lycopodiaceae, and lycophyte fossils, with attention to evolution, fossil context, and paleobotany. A persistent emphasis on marginal versus infra-marginal structures, life histories, and ecology complements an overall call for careful microscopic study and comparative anatomy as keys to robust taxonomy. It frames cryptogams as essential for understanding plant evolution and diversity.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461774240
• ISBN 13: 9780461774245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632