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On the lack of adaptation in the Tristichaceœ and Podostemaceœ

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing papers of a biological character, 1914-06, Vol.87 (598), p.532-550

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  • Title:
    On the lack of adaptation in the Tristichaceœ and Podostemaceœ
  • Author: Willis, John Christopher
  • Subjects: Biological adaptation ; Evolution ; Flowers ; Genera ; Natural selection ; Plant adaptation ; Plant morphology ; Plant roots ; Plants ; Thallus
  • Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing papers of a biological character, 1914-06, Vol.87 (598), p.532-550
  • Description: With the exception of some of the parasitic orders, such as the Balanophoraceœ, there are probably no families of flowering plants—one might almost include flowerless—which are so completely transformed from the average or mesophytic type of the phanerogams into types which are so completely unique and peculiar, as the Tristichaceæ and still more the Podostemaceæ. Nor are there any in which, with such very great uniformity in the conditions of life, there is such remarkable variety in the morphological structure. The structure of the orders, or rather of their members, being unique, and the conditions under which they live being also unique, it has been taken for granted that the former is in a high degree adapted to the latter, the flat thallus-like expansions of stem or root being looked upon as admirably suited to the rushing water in which they live. So long as we were almost completely ignorant of the actual living plants, and content with dead material collected mainly in the dry seasons, this was all very well, but now that for 17 years I have devoted much attention to these plants,* have studied them in the living condition in their natural habitats in India, Ceylon, and Brazil, have followed them from germination right through their life-history, and in other ways become absolutely familiar with them, and as a result of all this have arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions, it will repay us to examine into the question in some detail.
  • Publisher: London: The Royal Society
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0950-1193
    EISSN: 2053-9185
    DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1914.0040
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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