The Compositae in the Flora of North America North of Mexico (CFNA)

北美墨西哥植物区系中的菊科植物 (CFNA)

• 批准号: 0206645
• 负责人: Seymour Sohmer
• 金额: $ 29.9万
• 依托单位: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-01 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0206645&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Compositae; Flora; North; America; Mexico

The Compositae in the Flora of North America north of Mexico (CFNA) is a project to account for all members of the plant family Compositae (also called the Asteraceae) that occur outside of cultivation in North America north of Mexico. There are some 2,600 species distributed among 425 genera in North America north of Mexico, making it by far the largest family of plants in the region. The CFNA incorporates the work of some 70 contributing authors, who are recognized as experts in their groups. Their contributions are based on their own field studies, plus herbarium, laboratory, and library work. The CFNA is associated with the Flora of North America (FNA) program, whose goal is to account for all of the vascular plants and the bryophytes that occur in the continent north of Mexico. Curiously, no continent-wide consideration of the whole flora has ever been done. The products of the CFNA are being presented in three volumes in a style and format compatible with the FNA. The work is being published in hard copy by the Oxford University Press, but as sections are completed they are posted on the FNA website (www.fna.org). A future goal is to make all materials available in electronic format, so that the information can be both easily managed and revised, as needed. The CFNA is managed at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) in Fort Worth, and the work is coordinated by the Compositae Editorial Committee (CompEd) consisting of T. Barkley at BRIT, L. Brouillet at the University of Montreal, and J. Strother at the Univeristy of California - Berkeley. In addition, there is a technical editor and assistants, plus the services of botanical artists. Members of the family Compositae are both abundant and conspicuous in North America, and among them are the sagebrushes, ragweeds, goldenrods, and of course, sunflowers. Many members of the family are serious weeds, some are toxic, and some are of positive economic significance. The family is of great concern to environmentalists, ecologists, agronomists, horticulturalists, weed scientists, and others, and ultimately to the general public. The traditional concepts of the family, i.e., the concepts employed in standard American and Canadian regional floristic works (e.g., The Jepson Manual of the Higher Plants of California) stem from the middle of the 19th century. Research of the past quarter century has shown that these concepts require extensive revision so as to depict natural affinities and lineages. This is not mere ivory-towerism, for it has been made abundantly clear that an accurate knowledge of interrelationships among organisms is essential to understanding both how to manage our environment and what kinds of things may happen in the future. The products of these sophisticated studies usually circulate only among other botanists, but it is the goal of floristic studies such as the CFNA to translate these findings into works that are useful to the consumers of botanical information. The contributing authors are obliged to make their treatments reflect current understanding. Respect is given to the 19th century botanists who created a useful understanding of the family, and it is hoped that the schemes being incorporated into the CFNA will be equally useful for years to come. The treatments include keys, botanical descriptions, and considerations of nomenclature for all entities, plus statements of range and habitat, small distribution maps, and information on legal status, toxicity, usefulness, weediness, etc. About a quarter of the species are illustrated by line drawings prepared for the CFNA. The goal is to present the three volumes treating the Compositae in North America north of Mexico at the end of 2004.

《北美墨西哥北部植物区系中的菊科》（CFNA）是一个项目，旨在说明在北美墨西哥北部种植之外出现的菊科植物（也称为菊科）的所有成员。在北美墨西哥以北的425属中分布着大约2600种植物，使其成为该地区迄今为止最大的植物科。CFNA收录了大约70位投稿作者的作品，他们在各自的小组中被公认为专家。他们的贡献是基于他们自己的实地研究，加上植物标本室、实验室和图书馆的工作。CFNA与北美植物区系（FNA）计划有关，该计划的目标是对墨西哥北部大陆的所有维管植物和苔藓植物进行统计。奇怪的是，从来没有人对整个大陆的植物群进行过考虑。CFNA的产品以与FNA兼容的风格和格式分三卷出版。这本书由牛津大学出版社以印刷版出版，但部分内容完成后会在FNA网站上发布（www.fna.org）。未来的目标是使所有材料都以电子格式提供，以便信息可以容易地管理和根据需要进行修订。CFNA由位于沃斯堡的德克萨斯植物研究所（BRIT）管理，并由由BRIT的T. Barkley、蒙特利尔大学的L. Brouillet和加州大学伯克利分校的J. Strother组成的合成编辑委员会（CompEd）协调工作。此外，还有技术编辑和助理，加上植物艺术家的服务。菊科的成员在北美既丰富又引人注目，其中包括山艾草、豚草、金花，当然还有向日葵。许多家庭成员是严重的杂草，有些是有毒的，有些是积极的经济意义。这个家族是环境学家、生态学家、农学家、园艺学家、杂草科学家和其他人非常关注的，最终是普通公众。科的传统概念，即标准的美国和加拿大区域植物学著作（如《杰普森加利福尼亚高等植物手册》）中使用的概念，起源于19世纪中期。过去四分之一世纪的研究表明，这些概念需要广泛的修订，以描绘自然的亲缘关系和血统。这不仅仅是象牙塔主义，因为它已经非常清楚地表明，对生物之间相互关系的准确认识对于理解如何管理我们的环境以及未来可能发生的事情是至关重要的。这些复杂研究的成果通常只在其他植物学家之间流传，但像CFNA这样的植物区系研究的目标是将这些发现转化为对植物信息消费者有用的作品。投稿作者有义务使他们的处理反映当前的理解。人们对19世纪的植物学家表示敬意，他们对植物科有了有益的了解，希望被纳入CFNA的计划在未来几年也同样有用。这些处理包括关键字、植物描述和所有实体的命名考虑，加上范围和栖息地的陈述，小分布图，以及法律地位、毒性、有用性、杂草等信息。大约四分之一的物种被绘制在为CFNA准备的线条图中。目标是在2004年底在墨西哥北部的北美地区提供三卷处理复合材料。