CS_Botanical System of Classifications

• Botanical System of Classification


  An organized system for descriptive classification based on the external appearance of organisms

  
• Plant Taxonomy


  The science of naming organisms and putting them in a hierarchical structure

  
• Carolus Linnaeus


  The 'Father of Taxonomy'
• Nomenclature


  The system of assigning names to plants
• Levels of classification


  • Kingdom
  • Division
  • Class
  • Order
  • Family
  • Genus
  • Species

  
• Kingdom


  • The most inclusive, broad level of classification
• Species


  • The least inclusive, most specific level of classification
• Cryptogamae


  The kingdom that houses plants that use spores as their main way of reproduction, without seeds or flowers

  
• Phanerogamae


  The kingdom that consists of plants that use seeds to reproduce
• Thallophyta


  • Non-mobile plants that are usually called "small plants", lack a vascular system, and rely on diffusion for the transfer of materials (includes algae, fungi, and lichens)
• Bryophyta


  • Consists of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, mainly gets nutrients in the water and in the air
• Pteridophyta


  • Considered as the first plants to live and evolve on land (ferns and horsetails)
• Gymnospermae


  The group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes, where the seeds are not enclosed within a carpel

  
• Angiospermae


  The plants that have flowers and produce seeds enclosed within a carpel

  
• Monocotyledone


  • Flowering plants with an embryo that bears a single cotyledon (seed leaf), typically have elongated stalkless leaves with parallel veins (e.g. grasses, lilies, palms)
• Dicotyledone


  • Also known as dicots, one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants were formerly divided, the seed has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons, around 200,000 species within this group