Bignoniaceae Systematic Revision: Completion

D'Arcy DEB 9870694 紫菀科是一个具有大而艳丽的花朵的植物科，如梓树和凌霄花。 在约900种中，有800种产于热带美洲，例如Bignoneae族的成员，包括约47属的400多种木本藤本植物。 阿尔·金特里博士是紫菀科最重要的学生，三年前死于一场飞机事故，把世界上主要的紫菀科标本收藏和大量未发表的信息留在了他的家乡密苏里州植物园。 Gentry的同事William D'Arcy博士领导了一个专家小组，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，并将其发布在万维网上。 这个专家组正在努力完成在金特里一生中进行的分类学修订工作。尚待完成的工作包括将金特里博士为美洲热带标本完成的其余数千个物种鉴定的计算机数据库，以及为部落中其余属的修订做准备。 鉴定检索表、详细的植物学部分的插图、新物种的描述和分布图是正在准备的综合分类学处理的一部分。

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in an airplane accident three years ago, leaving the world's major collection of Bignoniaceae specimens and a wealth of unpublished information at his home institution, the Missouri Botanical Garden.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.