Bignoniaceae Systematic Revision: Completion

D‘Arcy DEB 9870694是一科植物，花大而艳丽，如梓属和喇叭属植物。在大约900种植物中，有800种分布在热带美洲，如大草亚族的成员，包括约47属400多种木本藤本植物。艾尔·金特里博士是大戟科最重要的研究人员，他在三年前的一次空难中去世，在他的家乡密苏里州植物园留下了世界上最大的大黄科标本收藏和大量未发表的信息。Gentry的同事William D‘Arcy博士领导了一个专家小组，其中包括一名博士后助理，准备Gentry的数据库，记录所有已知物种的地理分布，并将其呈现在万维网上。这个专家组正在努力完成金特里在世期间正在进行的分类学修订工作。尚待完成的工作包括对詹特里博士为美洲热带地区的标本完成的剩余数千种鉴定建立计算机数据库，以及为部落中剩余的属进行修订。鉴定检索表、详细植物部分的图解、新种的描述和分布图是正在准备的全面分类处理的一部分。

D'Arcy DEB 9870694 The Bignoniaceae is a family of plants with large showy flowers such as those of catalpa and trumpet creeper. Of about 900 species 800 occur in tropical America, such as members of the tribe Bignoneae, comprising over 400 species of woody vines in about 47 genera. Dr. Al Gentry, the foremost student of the Bignoniaceae, died in an airplane accident three years ago, leaving the world's major collection of Bignoniaceae specimens and a wealth of unpublished information at his home institution, the Missouri Botanical Garden. Gentry's colleague, Dr. William D'Arcy, has lead a small group of specialists, including one postdoctoral associate, to prepare Gentry's database documenting the geographical distributions of all the known species and present it on the World Wide Web. This specialist group is working to finish the taxonomic revisionary work that was underway during Gentry's lifetime. Work still to be done includes computer data-basing of the remaining thousands of species identifications completed by Dr. Gentry for specimens from the American tropics, and preparation of revisions for the remaining genera in the tribe. Identification keys, illustrations of detailed botanical parts, descriptions for new species, and distribution maps are parts of the comprehensive taxonomic treatments being prepared.