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This book presents the current principles and practices of plant taxonomy and contemporary classifications, and describes some of the important families and groups of vascular plants.
Additional Details
- Title
- Plant systematics
- Creators
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- Jones, Samuel B., 1933-
- Subject
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- Botany--Classification
- Publisher
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- McGraw-Hill, 1987
- National Library Board Singapore, 1987
- Contributors
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- Luchsinger, Arlene E.
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill.
- Table of Contents
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- Preface -- 1. Introduction to Systematic Botany -- 2. Historical Background of Classification -- 3. Plant Nomenclature -- 4. Principles of plant taxonomy -- 5. Sources of taxonomic evidence -- 6. The origin and classification of the Magnoliophyta (Angiosperms) -- 7. Evolution, variation, and biosystematics -- 8. Specimen preparation and herbarium management -- 9. Methods of identifying vascular piants -- 10. Terminology of flowering plants -- 11. Selected literature of systematic botany -- 12. Pteridophytes -- 13. Gymnosperms -- 14. Angiosperm families -- Appendixes -- Indexes.
- Edition
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- 2nd ed., International ed.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.