Manual of Leaf Architecture
Ellis, Beth / Daly, Douglas C. / Hickey, Leo (Yale University, USA) / Johnson, Kirk (Denver Museum of Nature and Science, USA) / Mitchell, John (New York Botanical Garden, USA) / Wilf, Peter (Pennslyvania University, USA) / Wing, Scott (Smithsonian University, USA)
This is an essential reference for describing, measuring and classifying the foliage of flowering plants. The presented system provides long-needed guidelines for characterizing the organization, shape, venation, and surface features of angiosperm leaves. In contrast to systems focusing on reproductive characters for identification, the emphasis is on macroscopic features of the leaf blade including leaf characters, venation, and tooth charact...