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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 ...
As published in Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants [5] [3] [6] [7]. Division Magnoliophyta (2 classes, 17 subclasses, 71 superorders, 232 orders, 589 families ...
The Tela Botanica network was created in December 1999 and is managed by a French association: Association Tela Botanica. Its founding members include three legal entities (the Société botanique de France, the botanical review La Garance voyageuse and the association ACEMAV) and the initiator of the project is Daniel Mathieu.
A system of plant taxonomy, the Thorne system of plant classification was devised by the American botanist Robert F. Thorne (1920–2015) in 1968, [1] and he continued to issue revisions over many years (1968–2007).
1789–90 London Botanical Review, or The Beauties of Flora [39] Edward Donovan (1768–1837) 1790 London Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa François Le Vaillant (1753–1824) 1790 Lisbon Flora Cochinchinensis (4 vols.) João de Loureiro (1717–1791) 1790 Plantes grasses Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840)
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]
Smith also refined his botanical illustration and his laboratory skills. In 1911 Smith published his paper about a new genus of algae he had identified. [ 3 ] Later Smith received a Ph.D and was awarded an instructorship in botany at the University of Wisconsin, where continued his research into algae and plankton.