Book notices

1 Pages·2001·0.28 MB·English

by  Adema, Frits

526 BLUMEA Vol. 46, No. 3, 2001
Booknotices
Afullreview ofbooks announcedin this sectionmay be published in Blumeaat a
laterdate.
BRUCE A.BOHM& TODF. STUESSY:FlavonoidsoftheSunflowerfamily (Astera-
ceae). Springer-Verlag, Wien, New York, 2001. xii + 831 pp., illus. ISBN 3-211-
83479-6.Price: DEM398, USD 199.
Thisbookon Asteraceae(Compositae) andFlavonoidcompounds consistsofsix
sections:Section 1. IntroductiontotheSunflowerfamilydiscussesgeneralaspects of
thefamily. Section2. IntroductiontotheFlavonoidsdiscusses general aspects ofthe
Flavonoidcompounds. Section3. Flavonoid datais thelargest section and discusses
the occurrence and distributionofFlavonoidsin theAsteraceae.Section4.Efficacy
ofFlavonoidsatdifferenttaxonomiclevelsdiscusses theimportanceofFlavonoidsas
markers atvarioustaxonomiclevels.Section5.Flavonoidsasindicatorsoftheevolutio-
nary process discussesFlavonoidsas markers forresearch on population variation,
hybridisation, andintrogression. Section6.Flavonoidsandphylogeny is a very short
sectioninwhichrelationships ofAsteraceaewithotherfamiliesandtheevolutionof
theFlavonoidsystemarebrieflydiscussed.Alonglistofreferencesandvariousindices
completes thebook.
Flavonoidsofthe Sunflowerfamily is a major contributiontoourknowledge of
thisfamily.
JIRI KOMAREK & VLASTA JANKOVSKA: ReviewoftheGreenAlgal genusPedias-
trum; implications forPollenanalytical Research.BibliothecaPhycologica Band
108,2001. 127pp., illus.ISBN3-443-60035-2.Price:DEM90.
Pediastrum(Chlorophyceae) is foundas a(sub)fossil intheformofsporopollenin
cellwallswiththecellshapeandthecellwallornamentationmostly intact.Thepresent
volumeofBibliothecaPhycologicaprovides akey toidentify suchremains.Itdescribes
presentandfossil materialand discusses presentandfossil distribution.
Frits Adema