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Monocotyledons

  • Living reference work
  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Urs Eggli

    1. Städtische Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  2. Reto Nyffeler

    1. Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  • New edition extensively revised and updated
  • With numerous brilliant color photos throughout
  • Provides a comprehensive taxonomic treatment of this group of succulents

Part of the book series: Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants (SUCCPLANTS)

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Table of contents (110 entries)

  1. ×Orthomea BROMELIACEAE

    • U. Eggli

  2. ×Orthotanthus BROMELIACEAE

    • U. Eggli

  3. ×Poellneria ASPHODELACEAE

    • U. Eggli

  4. ×Puckia BROMELIACEAE

    • N. Schütz, F. Krapp

  5. ×Pucohnia BROMELIACEAE

    • N. Schütz, F. Krapp

  6. Acanthostachys BROMELIACEAE

    • U. Eggli

  7. Aechmea BROMELIACEAE

    • U. Eggli

  8. Agavaceae

    • J. Thiede, U. Eggli

  9. Agave AGAVACEAE

    • J. Thiede

  10. Albuca HYACINTHACEAE

    • E. Van Jaarsveld

  11. Aloe ASPHODELACEAE

    • L. E. Newton

  12. Amaryllidaceae

    • U. Eggli, E. Van Jaarsveld, S. Arroyo-Leuenberger

  13. Aneilema COMMELINACEAE

    • D. R. Hunt

  14. Anthericaceae

    • E. Van Jaarsveld, U. Eggli

  15. Araceae

    • J. Bogner

  16. Asparagaceae

    • E. Van Jaarsveld, U. Eggli

  17. Asparagus ASPARAGACEAE

    • E. Van Jaarsveld, U. Eggli

  18. Asphodelaceae

    • G. F. Smith, E. Figueiredo

  19. Astroloba ASPHODELACEAE

    • Nicole L. Meyer, Gideon F. Smith

  20. Beaucarnea RUSCACEAE

    • C. C. Walker
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About this book

This second edition provides a comprehensive list of the latest taxonomy including the updated relevant plant data. All succulent species of the monocotyledonous plant families and genera are described in detail.

This work will be particularly useful to botanists, plant taxonomists and scholars as well as to herbaria and botanic gardens. It will also appeal to the committed collector of succulent plants, horticultural cognoscenti and succulent plant lovers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Städtische Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Urs Eggli

  • Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Reto Nyffeler

About the editors

Dr. Urs Eggli studied botany at the University of Zürich, and produced a monographic study of the genus Rosularia for his Ph.D. Subsequently he became scientific assistant at the Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich, Switzerland, where he continues to curate the herbarium, and where he is responsible for public education, special exhibits and all aspects of information dissemination. His main focus of interest are the diverse biological aspects of succulent plants. He is an expert in the classification of succulents, esp. of the families Crassulaceae and Cactaceae, and a specialist of nomenclature. He travelled widely to study succulent plants in habitat, esp. in Latin America. His numerous publications cover a diversity aspects of the biology of succulent plants. Since 1995 he is editor of the annual Repertorium Plantarum Succulentarum. During 2001-2003 he edited 4 volumes of the first edition of the present series, and 2005 he translated and revised a monograph of the Cactaceae. He was awarded the Cactus d’Or by the International Organisation for Succulent Plant Study in 2015.

Dr. Reto Nyffeler studied biology at the University of Zürich. In 1997 he received a doctor’s degree with a Ph.D. thesis on the systematics of the tribe Notocacteae (Cactaceae) from South America. Subsequently, he spent four years as a postdoctoral student at Harvard University and Stanford University, and conducted during that stay the first comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study of Cactaceae. Since 2002 he is curator for the vascular plant collections at the United Herbaria of the University and ETH Zurich and he is a lecturer for plant systematics at the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich. His research focuses on the systematics of succulent plants and on the history of botany. During the past two decades he published several papers on succulents from different plant families in collaboration with Dr. Urs Eggli.

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