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Anatomy of the Monocotyledons Volume X: Orchidaceae

William Louis Stern, Mary Gregory, and David F. Cutler

Print publication date: 2014

Print ISBN-13: 9780199689071

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2015

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199689071.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

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(p.1) Introduction
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Anatomy of the Monocotyledons Volume X: Orchidaceae
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Alec M. Pridgeon

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199689071.003.0001

This introductory chapter discusses various aspects of this research on orchid anatomy. These include size and distribution, habitats, diversity, vegetative morphology, reproductive morphology, mycorrhiza, cytogenetics, phytochemistry, economic uses, taxonomic history and phylogenetics, origins and affinities, and floral anatomy. The chapter also includes a synopsis of vegetative anatomical literature.

Keywords:   orchid anatomy, vegetative morphology, reproductive morphology, mychorriza, cytogenetics, phytochemistry, taxonomic history, phylogenetics, floral anatomy, vegetative anatomical literature

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