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  2. Plant taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Three goals of plant taxonomy are the identification, classification and description of plants. The distinction between these three goals is important and often overlooked. Plant identification is a determination of the identity of an unknown plant by comparison with previously collected specimens or with the aid of books or identification manuals.

  3. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The science of classification, in biology the arrangement of organisms into a classification [4] "The science of classification as applied to living organisms, including the study of means of formation of species, etc." [5] "The analysis of an organism's characteristics for the purpose of classification" [6]

  4. Plant - Wikipedia

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    Diversity of living green plant (Viridiplantae) divisions by number of species; Informal group Division name Common name No. of described living species Green algae: Chlorophyta: Green algae (chlorophytes) 3800–4300 [21] [22] Charophyta: Green algae (e.g. desmids & stoneworts) 2800–6000 [23] [24] Bryophytes: Marchantiophyta: Liverworts 6000 ...

  5. Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The classification of living things into animals and plants is an ancient one. Aristotle (384–322 BC) classified animal species in his History of Animals, while his pupil Theophrastus (c. 371 –c. 287 BC) wrote a parallel work, the Historia Plantarum, on plants. [7]

  6. Plant life-form - Wikipedia

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    Plant life-form schemes constitute a way of classifying plants alternatively to the ordinary species-genus-family scientific classification. In colloquial speech , plants may be classified as trees , shrubs , herbs ( forbs and graminoids ), etc.

  7. Lycopodiopsida - Wikipedia

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    The nomenclature and classification of plants with microphylls varies substantially among authors. A consensus classification for extant (living) species was produced in 2016 by the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG I), which places them all in the class Lycopodiopsida, which includes the classes Isoetopsida and Selaginellopsida used in other ...

  8. Plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    The pattern of branching in a tree will vary from species to species, as will the appearance of a plant as a tree, herb, or grass. Fourthly, plant morphology examines the pattern of development, the process by which structures originate and mature as a plant grows. While animals produce all the body parts they will ever have from early in their ...

  9. Vegetation - Wikipedia

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    Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide. [2] It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. It is broader than the term flora which refers to species composition.