Site: Angiosperm phylogeny for teaching

[Peter Stevens]

Those who have to teach Angiosperm families and their phylogenetic
relationships may find a website at
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ of some use.  The phylogeny is
conservative, being  that of the Angiosperm Phylogeny group (1998), but
with some elaborations because of recent work.  All orders (with a couple
of exceptions), family groupings, groupings of orders, families, and a few
subfamilies are characterised.  The orders and families themselves are
those recognized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, again with a few
emendations.  There is a short bibliography, discussion of characters and
states, some links to photographs, etc. The website is
best optimized for the most recent version of the most popular browsers
(Netscape and Internet Explorer). These are freely downloadable, but if you
use older versions, there still should not be too many problems. I would be
interested to know if accessibility is a problem, and if having the
information in a CD-ROM would be of any use.

Like any new site, there are several obvious holes in the information, but
these should be clear; comments, corrections, etc., will be more than
appreciated.

Peter Stevens