Lec 2 - Plant Taxonomy

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Kingdom of Plants

Plantae

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Shen Nung

First known plant works in eastern herbalism describing medicinal plants (~3000 BC)

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Theophrastus & Aristotle

Greek Philosophers used descriptive names to name and categorize living things (~350 BC)

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Linnaeus

Introduced binomial system with Species Planatarum with 1,000 genes & 7,500 species described (1753).

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Charles Darwin

and others present a system introducing evolution into taxonomic classification, about ~280 families (1850)

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Binomial nomenclature

System of scientifically naming organisms with two words, popularized by Linnaeus.

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Genus

The taxonomic category above species. Always written in italics and capitalized.

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Species

The most basic taxonomic category consisting of individuals who can produce fertile offspring.

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Taxonomic classifications in order:

  • Kingdom

  • Division - phyta

  • Class - opsida

  • Order - ales

  • Family - aceae

  • Subfamily - oideae

  • Tribe -eae

  • Genus

  • Species 

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Ferdinand Lindheimer

Father of Texas Botany. Botanized in Texas during its time as a country. First major botanical explorer of the new country then state