cotyledon number request

[Finn N. Rasmussen]

Una Smith wrote:

<snip>
        According to Watson and Dallwitz's "Families of Flowering Plants"
        (http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/), of 473 dicot families
        112 are coded unknown, 14 are coded inapplicable, and 347 are
        coded for cotyledon number.
<dicot table deleted>
         Of 109 monocot families, 28 are unknown, 11 are inappliable, and
        70 are coded for cotyledon number:

         cotyledons      families
                1               69
                2               3

        Note that a family can have more than one number of cotyledons.
<endsnip>

It seems to have escaped Watson and Dallwitz that in the largest monocot
family (Orchidaceae, about 1/3 of the monocots) there are no cotyledons at
all.

Finn N Rasmussen, Copenhagen.