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DOWELD A. B. New Syllabus of Plant Families (A Plant World System).
Approx. 500 p. Hardbound; 21 cm x 29 cm PRICE: 150.00 EURO/US $166.67

For botanists, zoologists, palaeontologists (palaeobotanists),
protistologists, molecular biologists, all interested in botanical and
zoological nomenclature and phylogenetic systematics.

The book contains the phylogenetic system of all plants from plant-like
procaryotes, lower plant-like protistan organisms, algae, and fungi to
mosses and higher vascular plants. Each family of plants is briefly
characterized with diagnosis, provided a full synonymy from 1753 (omitted
invalidly published, descriptive and illegitimate names), in some cases
detailed infrafamilial classification is presented. The Syllabus covers all
known plants, including fossil, for the period of cca. 4700 million years
(from Precambrian to Extant), described from the starting point of botanical
nomenclature (Linnaeus' Species Plantarum, 1753). The New Syllabus
supersedes the world known 'Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien', which has been
initiated by the German botanist Adolf Engler in 1892 and which served as a
main source of systematic botany for the nearly half of 20th century.
5 kingdoms of plants (aggregated into subempire Chlorota) and kingdom of
fungi (treated as belonging to Zoota (Opisthokonta) subempire of Eukaryotes)
contain cca. 7500 validly published names of families, orders, superorders,
(sub-) classes as on Jan, 2003, including for the first time revised and
summarized fossil suprageneric names. A revised, brief system of Eukaryota
is also added with 481 analogous suprageneric names: the Eukaryota is
considered as a domain (empire) of organisms, splitted into two subdomains,
Chlorota (plant-like organisms aggreagted into 5 kingdoms) and Zoota
(animals and fungi in 6 kingdoms). More than 120 new suprageneric names
(from family to phyla) are validated according to provisions of both
International Codes of Botanical and Zoological Nomenclature. A
comprehensive bibliography (approx. 1700 entries) covers all papers and
books in which all summarized suprageneric names for the period of cca. 250
years (since 1753)have been validly published.