Bignoniaceae Neotropical Floristic Revision

小行星9509270 紫菀科的开花植物大多是热带的藤本植物、灌木和乔木，温带植物学家从诸如喇叭藤和几种草本植物中知道。 估计有900种，其中近800种出现在美洲热带地区。 紫菀科最重要的研究者是游历广泛的植物学家艾尔·金特里博士，他两年前在南美进行植物考察时死于飞机事故。 他在家乡的密苏里州植物园留下了大量关于这些植物的未发表的信息，以及记录所有已知物种地理分布的主要植物标本集。 他的同事William D'Arcy博士现在正在领导一个专家小组，不久将加入一个专门研究这些植物的博士后助理，以完成Gentry一生中正在进行的分类学修订工作。 要做的工作包括将金特里博士完成的来自美洲热带的数千种物种鉴定的计算机数据库，这反过来又为所有区域植物目录提供了基础。 识别键，详细的植物学部分的插图，新物种的描述，和几个新热带属的综合分类学治疗也计划，作为核心活动的一个新培训的专家对Bignoniaceae。

9509270 D'Arcy The Bignoniaceae family of flowering plants are mostly tropical vines, shrubs, and trees, known to temperate-zone botanists from such species as trumpet-creeper and several ornamentals. There are an estimated 900 species, nearly 800 of which occur in the American tropics. The foremost student of the Bignoniaceae was the widely traveled botanist Dr. Al Gentry, who died in an airplane accident two years ago while on botanical reconnaissance in South America. He left at his home institution, the Missouri Botanical Garden, a wealth of unpublished information on these plants as well as the major collection of herbarium specimens documenting the geographical distributions of all the known species. His colleague Dr. William D'Arcy is now leading a small group of specialists, soon to be joined by a postdoctoral associate specializing on these plants, to finish the taxonomic revisionary work that was underway during Gentry's lifetime. Work to be done includes computer databasing of the several thousands of species identifications completed by Dr. Gentry, for specimens from the American tropics, which in turn provides the foundation for all regional plant inventories. Identification keys, illustrations of detailed botanical parts, descriptions for new species, and comprehensive taxonomic treatments for several neotropical genera are also scheduled, as core activities for a newly trained specialist on the Bignoniaceae.