Dear Cveluh,

Just released:

Rudolf M. Schuster (2021): Austral Hepaticae, Part III
(Nova Hedwigia, Beihefte, Beih. 120)
ISBN 978-3-443-51042-8, 721 pages, 225 figures, paperback
Price: 189.00 EUR

This third and voluminous (more than 720 pages; Part I and Part II,
Set of volumes I-III available at nice price, see below) final volume
of Schuster's Austral Hepaticae treats two large families:
Geocalyaceae (including Lophocoleoideae), Plagiochilaceae, and
several smaller families including Acrobolbaceae and
Balantiopsidaceae.

This volume completes the comprehensive and significant
evolutionary-systematic research program completed by Professor
Schuster which began in the mid-1950s and revolutionised our
understanding of both relationships and diversity in liverworts.

His legacy is a classification that remains recognisable as largely
his, particularly at d eeper phylogenetic levels. Professor Schuster
had strong views on character evolution, and framed his
interpretation of character evidence and relationships in accordance
with these.

The enduring value of Schusters work, despite some revision of our
understanding of relationships wrought by molecular phylogenetic
investigations, lies in the wealth of astute observation and superb
illustration of morphology and anatomy completed by Professor
Schuster. As a compendium of morphological character data the three
parts of Austral Hepaticae are unsurpassed, and will be particularly
valuable as morphological and molecular data are synthesised in
future studies of character evolution in the hepatics.


For those who are also interested in volumes I-II, the set Austral
Hepaticae I-III is available at the special price of 370 EUR:

https://www.schweizerbart.de/9783443510732

Synopsis/TOC:

https://www.schweizerbart.d e/9783443510428


Sincerely,

Schweizerbart Science Publishers
helping to get the word out since 1826