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 [...]
In this article we will discuss about the merits and demerits of Throne’s system. Merits of Thorne's System: 1. The woody Annonales which are now universally accepted as the most primitive living Angiosperms are the starting point of his system and constitute the base of the phylogenetic shrub of Angiosperms. The Berberidaceae and the Nymphaeales, though more advanced than the [...]