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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 ...
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. For example, the family to which the lilies belong is classified as follows: Kingdom: Plantae; Division ...
List of Eremophila (plant) species; List of Erica species; List of Erigeron species; List of Eryngium species; List of Erysimum species; List of Eucalyptus species; List of Eugenia species; List of Eulophia species; List of Euonymus species; List of Euphorbia species; List of Euphorbia species (A–F) List of Euphorbia species (G–O) List of ...
This is a list of plant hybrids created intentionally or by chance and exploited commercially in agriculture or horticulture. The hybridization event mechanism is documented where known, along with the authorities who described it.
Lists of useful plants; Herb. Plants used as herbs or spices; List of plants used in herbalism; List of culinary herbs and spices; List of herbs with known adverse effects; Medicinal plants. List of medicinal plants of the American West; List of textile fibres; List of woods; List of Indian timber trees; List of beneficial weeds; List of plants ...
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners .
In plant breeding nomenclature, at least in countries that are signatory to the UPOV Convention, "variety" or "plant variety" is a legal term. [citation needed] In zoological nomenclature, the only allowed rank below that of species is that of subspecies. A name that was published before 1961 as that of a variety is taken to be the name of a ...
The ICNCP operates within the framework of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants which regulates the scientific names of plants. The following are some examples of names governed by the ICNCP: Clematis alpina 'Ruby': a cultivar within a species; the cultivar epithet is in single quotes and capitalized.