Systems of classification
Systems of classification Flowering plants are the most evolved among the whole plant kingdom. At present days there are 250,000 species of plants and they are group into 12,000 genera. Carolus Linnaeus had done his classification of plants on basis of physical characteristics. Now plants classification had modernized and they are classified on the basis of various objective like physical, chemical and molecular structures. “Taxonomy” word comes from Greek and meaning of this word is “arrangement” and “law”. Taxonomy is a science that include identification, nomenclature and classification of objects and is usually restricted to objects of biological origin, and when it deals with plants it is also referred to as Systematic Botany. Why this classification required ? As we recognized by our name like that these plants are put together into convenient groups, so that we may be able to find them out very easily when required. With this object in view different methods were found ou...