• Premise of the study: The first family‐wide molecular phylogeny of the Araceae, a family of
about 3800 published species in 120 genera, became available in 1995, followed by a …

Philodendron subgenus Philodendron is the largest of the 3 subgenera and includes 103
taxa (95 species and 8 subspecies or varieties) for Central America. Some 68 taxa (62 …

Philodendron subgenus Meconostigma is defined and described taxonomically and a
revision of the 15 recognized species is presented; two new species, P. dardanianum and P …

This volume covers up-to-date notions of seed structure, processes resulting to its formation
(syngamy, triple fusion etc.), as well as of postseminal development (seed dormancy and …

Herbs, diminutive to gigantic, terrestrial, geophytic, epiphytic, or climbing, rarely aquatic; with
true or false stems; tissues with raphides; laticifers commonly present; mature shoots …

The aroids need little introduction to those immersed in CoRNER's botany of the tropics.
They compose one of the most diverse angiosperm families, and, if some measure of …

In the intermediate zone of the inflorescence of genera of Aroideae one can find flowers with
male and female characteristics. Until now, two types of developmental sequences of …

Note: This paper, originally published in Aroideana Vol. 21, pp. 26–145 in 1998, is
periodically updated onto the IAS web page with current additions. Any mistakes, proposed …

Previous studies have shown Homalomena as traditionally defined to be polyphyletic, with
Neotropical species phylogenetically distinct from Asian species. This study of 29 …

Embryological data of systematic significance to the family Araceae are reviewed and
analyzed, with special attention given to the determination of character-state polarities …