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  2. Plant taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Once a plant specimen has been identified, its name and properties are known. Plant classification is the placing of known plants into groups or categories to show some relationship. Scientific classification follows a system of rules that standardizes the results, and groups successive categories into a hierarchy.

  3. List of systems of plant taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    A pioneering system of plant taxonomy, Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, Leiden, 1735. This list of systems of plant taxonomy presents "taxonomic systems" used in plant classification. A taxonomic system is a coherent whole of taxonomic judgments on circumscription and placement of the considered taxa. It is only a "system" if it is applied to a ...

  4. Linnaean taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    However, in 1737 he published Genera Plantarum in which he claimed that his classification of genera was a natural system. [3] His botanical classification and sexual system were used well into the nineteenth century. [4] Within each class were several orders. This system is based on the number and arrangement of male and female organs. [5]

  5. APG IV system - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of angiosperms shown in diagram format, per APG IV. The APG IV system of flowering plant classification is the fourth version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy for flowering plants (angiosperms) being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG).

  6. Raunkiær plant life-form - Wikipedia

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    The Raunkiær system is a system for categorizing plants using life-form categories, devised by Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær and later extended by various ...

  7. Bentham & Hooker system - Wikipedia

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    Note that this system was published well before there were internationally accepted rules for botanical nomenclature.It indicates a family by "ordo"; an order is indicated by "cohors" (in the first two volumes) or "series" (in the third volume); in the first two volumes “series” refers to a rank above that of order.

  8. Species Plantarum - Wikipedia

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    In his introduction, Linnaeus estimated that there were fewer than 10,000 plant species in existence; [12] there are now thought to be around 400,000 species of flowering plants alone. [13] The species were arranged in around a thousand genera, which were grouped into 24 classes, according to Linnaeus' sexual system of classification. [14]

  9. Classification chart - Wikipedia

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    Linné's method for classification of plants in Classes Plantarum 1738, and the Figurative system of human knowledge from Diderot's Encyclopédie, 1752. Classification chart or classification tree is a synopsis of the classification scheme, [1] designed to illustrate the structure of any particular field. Classification tree.webm