THE greater part of this thick volume consists of a brief description of the distinguishing characters of the most important orders of Flowering and Flowerless Plants, with a longer account of the ...

This volume was compiled in honor of John Julius Wurdack, who retired in 1991 as Curator, Department of Botany in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Preliminary ...

TAXONOMY, from the Greek origins of the word, is the law of order. The theory and practice of classification is, and has been, the first function of the taxonomist. In the earlier history of botanical ...

The chemical approach to plant classification with special reference to the higher taxa of Magnoliophyta / A. Takhtajan -- Chemical plant taxonomy : a generalist's view of a promising specialty / A.

Much debate has ensued during the past decade on the positive and negative aspects of the three major approaches to biological classification: cladistics, evolutionary classification (=phyletics), and ...

Kew Bulletin is an international peer-reviewed journal of plant taxonomy. It publishes original articles, short communications and reviews on the taxonomy, nomnecalture, phylogeny, systematics and ...