PBIO 250 LECTURE NOTES

- Plant Taxonomy -

James L. Reveal

Department of Plant Biology, University of Maryland,
College Park, Maryland 20742-5815

Copyrighted by the Norton-Brown Herbarium
University of Maryland

1999

Text books in bookstore; lab manuals in lab

Lecture Syllabus
Laboratory Syllabus

Introduction
History of Systematic Botany
Plant Nomenclature
Principles of Plant Taxonomy
Sources of Taxonomic Evidence
Origin and Classification
Evolution, Variation and Biosystematics
Specimen Preparation and Herbaria
Methods of Identifying Vascular Plants
Floras and Systematic Botany Journals
Major World-Wide-Web and Internet Addresses
Selected families of Pteridophytes
Selected families of Gymnosperms
Selected families of Angiosperms

Magnoliidae

Hamamalididae

Caryophyllidae

Dilleniidae

Rosidae

Asteridae

Alismatidae

Arecidae

Commelinidae

Zingiberidae

Liliidae

Systems of Vascular Plant Classification

Cronquist

Dahlgren

Reveal

Takhtajan

Thorne

Plant Collection Requirements and Equipment
Sample examination questions

Last revised: 8 Nov 1998

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