Lasianthus Jack is a large genus of the family Rubiaceae with more than 180 species, predominantly in the Old World. In tropical Asia there are more than 160 species, only one extending to Australia. The greatest species diversity is found in tropical Asia. The species of the genus occur almost exclusively in the understory of primary forests. There are occasionally records from secondary or seriously disturbed forests or forest edges. Lasianthus species are an ecologically important element in tropical forests of Asia because they are usually present in large numbers in the forests. The species of the genus also show interesting distribution patterns, which may have significant implications to biogeography of tropical Asia and speciation in tropical rain forest.
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内容:
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Preface
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Copyright Page
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About the Author
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Introduction
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Contents
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Chapter 1. A Taxonomic Revision of the Malesian Species of Lasianthus (Rubia-ceae)
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Chapter 2. A Revision of the Genus Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) from China
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Chapter 3. A Taxonomic Revision on the Genus Lasianthus Jack (Rubiaceae) from Thailand
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Chapter 4. Two New Subspecies of Lasianthus inodorus (Rubiaceae) from Kinabalu, Borneo and Their Biogeographical Implication
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Chapter 5. Four New Species and One New Record of Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) from Thailand
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Chapter 6. Three New Species of the Genus Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) from Viet-nam
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Chapter 7. New Plants of the Genus Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) from Vietnam
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Chapter 8. Paraphyly and Phylogenetic Relationship in Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) In-ferred from Chloroplast rps16 Data
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Chapter 9. Pollen Morphology of the Genus Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) and Related Taxa from Asia
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Chapter 10. Paralasianthus (Rubiaceae), a New Genus from Southeast Asia
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Zhu Hua (H. Zhu), is a Ph.D. and Professor in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Beijing Forestry University in 1982, and was honored with Master degree under supervision of Professor Zhang Hongda at Zhongshan University (Sun Yat-sen University) in 1986, and then honored with Doctor of Science degree under supervision of Professor Wu Zhengyi at Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. Since then, he has worked on biodiversity of tropical rain forests, vegetation, plant taxonomy and floristic plant geography in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and promoted to a professor in 1996. As a visiting scholar, he went to Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge, UK, studying ecology and conservation of tropical rain forest during 1994-1995. He was also an invited professor in Leiden Uni-versity and the National Herbarium of the Netherland to study the plant genus Lasian-thus Jack for Flora Malesiana during 2001-2002. He was and is the committee member of editorial boards of the journals《Journal of Systematics and Evolution》, 《Tropical Conservation Science》, 《Guihaia》, 《Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology》, 《Biodiversity Science》, 《Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany》, 《Plant Diversity and Resources》, and the associate editors-in chief of《Plant Science Journal》.