Plant taxonomy
Subtitle: the systematic evaluation of comparative data
By: Tod Stuessy.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780231147125; 9780231518642
Subjects: Plants -- Classification
Genres: Classification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The relevance of systematics; title: The importance and universality classification; title: Characters; title: The anatomy of classification and the artificial approach; title: Natural and phyletic approaches; title: Phenetic approach; title: Cladistic approach; title: Evaluation of the three major approaches and explicit phyletics; title: The taxonomic hierarchy; title: Species; title: Subspecies, variety, and form; title: Genus; title: Family and higher categories; title: Morphology; title: Anatomy; title: Embryology; title: Palynology; title: Phytochemistry; title: Cytology and cytogenetics; title: Molecular biology; title: Genetics and population genetics; title: Reproductive biology; title: Ecology; title: Gathering and storage of data.