• Description
• Contents
• Details
• Review
• The author

A Worldwide Monograph of Swertia and Its Allies. The tribe gentianae circumscribed by Struwes and Albert(2002) comprises 17 genera in two subtribes.  This bookpresent a monograph of the rotate group comprising Swertia,Sinoswertia, Lomatogoniopsis, Lomatogonium, and Veratrilla. 

   

1 Inter-generic circumscription of Swertia and allies1

1.1An introduction to the tribe Gentianae1
1.2Key to genera of the tribe Gentianae and subtribe Swertiinae1
1.3Morphologica ldifferentiation between the rotate and tubular genera4
2 SwertiaLinnaeus
2.1Historical survey
2.2Generic circumscription in the present work
2.2.1Frasera
2.2.2Ophelia
2.2.3Anagallidium
2.3Taxonomic traits of Swertia sensu lato
2.3.1Grossmorphology
2.3.2Embryology
2.3.3Chromosomes
2.3.4Pollentraits
2.3.5Pollen traits of subgenera and sections
2.3.6Taxonomic implications of pollen traits
2.4Distribution and diversification
2.5Taxonomic treatment
2.5.1Anenumeration of SwertiaL.
2.5.2Keytotaxa
2.5.3Asystematic account
2.6Unknown (uncertain) species
2.7The names excluded from SwertiaL.
3 SinoswertiaT.N.Ho，S.W.Liu&J.Q.Liu
3.1Taxonomic treatments
3.2Reproductive biology
3.3Embryology
3.4Systematic position
4 LomatogoniopsisT.N.Ho&S.W.Liu
4.1Taxonomic treatment
4.2Pollen morphology
4.3Systematic position

5 Veratrilla Baillonex Franchet
5.1Taxonomic treatment
5.2Pollen morphology
5.3Systematic position
6 Lomatogonium A.Braun
6.1Taxonomic treatment
6.2Embryology
6.3Chromosome numbers
6.4Pollen morphology
6.5Uncertain species
6.6The names excluded from Lomatogonium
7 Mainreferences
8 Representative specimens
8.1Representative specimens for Swertia Linnaeus
8.2Representative specimens for SinoswertiaT.N.Ho，S.W.Liu&J.Q.Liu
8.3Representative specimens for LomatogoniopsisT.N.Ho&S.W.Liu fu hua
8.4Representative specimens for VeratrillaBaillon ex Franchet
8.5Representative specimensfor LomatogoniumA.Braun
8.6Index to collectors of cited specimens
Index

Publisher:    Science Press
Edition:        1st edition.  
Availability:  copies in stock

 

Ho Ting-nong and Liu Shang-wu are from Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences