page_title: Bentham & Hooker system
hierarchical_section_title: Bentham & Hooker system
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece of 'Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita'; by Bentham, George, 1800-1884; Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911
context_page_description: A taxonomic system, the Bentham & Hooker system for seed plants, was published in Bentham and Hooker's Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita in three volumes between 1862 and 1883.
  George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker were British botanists who were closely affiliated to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England. Their system of botanical taxonomy was based on the principle of natural affinities and is considered as pre-Darwinian as it does not take evolution into account. The Genera plantarum classified an estimated 97,205 species into 202 families and 7,569 genera.
context_section_description: A taxonomic system, the Bentham & Hooker system for seed plants, was published in Bentham and Hooker's Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita in three volumes between 1862 and 1883.
  George Bentham (1800-1884) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) were British botanists who were closely affiliated to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England. Their system of botanical taxonomy was based on the principle of natural affinities and is considered as pre-Darwinian as it does not take evolution into account. The Genera plantarum classified an estimated 97,205 species into 202 families and 7,569 genera.
caption: Frontispiece of 1862 edition of Genera plantarum
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