Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Acknowledgments for the first edition Acknowledgments for the second edition I. PRINCIPLES OF TAXONOMY Section 1. The Meaning of Classification 1. A few definitions 2. The relevance of systematics 3. The importance and universality classification 4. Characters Section 2. Different approaches to biological classification 5. The anatomy of classification and the artificial approach 6. Natural and phyletic approaches 7. Phenetic approach 8. Cladistic approach 9. Evaluation of the three major approaches and explicit phyletics Section 3. Concepts of Categories 10. The taxonomic hierarchy 11. Species 12. Subspecies, variety, and form 13. Genus 14. Family and higher categories II. TAXONOMIC DATA Section 4. Types of data 15. Morphology 16. Anatomy 17. Embryology 18. Palynology 19. Phytochemistry 20. Cytology and cytogenetics 21. Molecular biology 22. Genetics and population genetics 23. Reproductive biology 24. Ecology Section 5. Handling of Data 25. Gathering and storage of data 26. Presentation of data Epilogue Literature Cited Author Index Subject Index

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"Stuessy has been an international leader in plant systematics for several decades. His new chapter on molecular biology provides a broad perspective on the contributions of molecular data and how plant systematics has changed so dramatically as a result of the "molecular revolution." -- Daniel J. Crawford, University of Kansas

About the Author

Tod F. Stuessy is professor and chair of the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany at the University of Vienna, Austria. He also serves as the Secretary-General of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy. The author or editor of nine books and over 250 research papers, he is the recipient of the Asa Gray Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Merit and Centennial Awards from the Botanical Society of America, and Corresponding Membership from the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Reviews

This new edition of Plant Taxonomy is long overdue... Highly recommended. Choice Well written and lucid... a comprehensive text that manages to smoothly bridge classical and recent systematic approaches to identification, nomenclature, and classification. -- R. Geeta Quarterly Review of Biology