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The system provides clear definitions and codes for recording plant distributions at four scales or levels, from "botanical continents" down to parts of large countries. Current users of the system include the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). [ 1 ]
The scheme is one of a number developed by Biodiversity Information Standards particularly aimed at taxonomic databases. [2] The starting point was the "need for an agreed system of geographical units at approximately 'country' level and upwards for use in recording plant distributions". [1]
Group of Two (G2): hypothetical and informal grouping between the United States and China, representing the countries with the two largest economies in the world EU's G6 - France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom - countries with largest populations and thus the majority of votes in the Council of the European Union
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 large group of such taxa (for example, all the flowering plants).
Endemic flora by country (140 C) Ferns by country (15 C) Monocots by country (3 C) Trees by country (80 C) A. Flora of Afghanistan (2 C, 237 P) Flora of Albania (1 C ...
List of plants known as nettle; List of plants known as oil palm; List of plants known as orange; List of plants known as rush; List of plants known as sea lettuce; List of plants known as sour cherry; List of plants known as tamarind; List of plants known as violet; Woodbine; List of wort plants; List of Māori plant common names. List of ...
The term pulse is used for the seeds of plants from the Fabaceae family (legumes), such as beans, pea, lentil and chickpea. Pulses supply proteins and form chief source in vegetarian food. Leguminous plants fix nitrogen in root nodules - produced with the help of nitrogen fixing bacteria.
Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for ...