Contents
Synopsis
Preface
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1.1 Characters of leaf epidermis and their systematic significance
1.2 Pollen morphology observed under scanning and transmission electron microscopy
2.1 Chemical constituents
2.2 Characteristics of Paeonia in phytochemistry
3.1 Chromosome numbers, karyotypes, and their implications in phylogeny and evolution
3.2 Meiosis
4.1 Embryology
4.2 Breeding system
5.1 Special features of Paeonia
5.3 Affinities and systematic position of Paeonia
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Phylogeny and evolutionary history of Paeonia
6.4 Hybridisation and reticulate evolution in Paeonia
6.6 Summary
7.1 Insight into Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews and wild forms of tree peonies
7.2 Assumptions on the origin of the ‘King of Flowers’
7.3 Five species of wild tree peonies gave rise to the ‘King of Flowers’
1. A new supraspecific taxonomic system for the genus Paeonia L.
2. Revised key to subgenera, sections, and species of Paeonia L. (34 species in total)
3. New information on Paeonia rotundiloba (D. Y. Hong) D. Y. Hong
4. Restoration of Paeonia veitchii Lynch as a species with corresponding change to the circumscription of Paeonia anomala L.
1. Great significance of wild tree peony conservation
2. Practical lessons from the conservation of wild tree peonies
4. Current status of wild tree peonies
6. Suggestions