List of four eminent botanists who contributed to artificial system of plant classification:- 1. Theophrastus (370-287 BC) 2. John Ray (1627-1705) 3. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) 4. George Bentham (1800-1884) and Joseph Dalton Hooker's (1817-1911) System. Botanist # 1. Theophrastus (370-287 BC): He was a Greek naturalist and pupil of Plato and Aristotle. Based on the habit, he classified the plants [...]
List of six eminent botanists who contributed to the phylogenetic system of plant classification:- 1. Adolf Engler (1844-1930) 2. John Hutchinson (1884-1972) 3. Armen Takhtajan (1911) 4. Arthur Cronquist (1919-1992) 5. Rolf Dahlgren (1932-1987) 6. Robert F. Thorne (1920). Botanist # 1. Adolf Engler (1844-1930): The best known and widely accepted phylogenetic system is that by Adolf Engler, Professor of [...]
Notes on Plant Taxonomy:- 1. Objectives of Plant Taxonomy 2. Principles of Plant Taxonomy 3. Classification 4. Identification. Objectives of Plant Taxonomy: The first object of plant taxonomy is to identify all the kinds of plants on earth with their names, distinctions, distribution, habit, characteristics and affinities. It also tries to correlate the studies with scientific data contributed by various [...]