Botanice,[1] saepebotanica[2][1] (exGraeco βοτάνη 'pascua, gramen, pabulum' < βόσκειν 'pasci, vesci'), velphytologia, antiquears herbaria, hodie aliquandoscientia plantarum etbiologia plantarum, est parsbiologiae etscientiavitaeplantarum[3] (Gordh et Headrick 2001:134; Liddell et Scott 1940; Online Etymology Dictionary 2012). Haec disciplina inlitteris a maioribus traditis studiumfungorum,algarum, etviruum comprehendit. Qui litteris rerum botanicarum studeat botanista appellatur.
Excogitabantursaeculo duodevicensimo systemata classificationis quae clavium diagnosticorum similia sunt, ubitaxa paribus a priori digeruntur.Sequentia taxorum in clavibus saepe ad eorum gregesnaturales velphyleticos non spectavit (Scharf 2009:73–117). Ante saeculum undevicensimum, crescens novarum plantarum numerus exregionibus nove inventiscoloniisque Europaeis perorbem terrarum conditis Europam advenierant, et plantae magis atque magis investigari poterant. Libris botanicis illo tempore erant perpaucaepicturae (Scharf 2009:73–74).Carolus Linnaeus regnum plantarum in viginti quinqueclasses anno1754 secundumtaxinomiam divisit cui erant ordinariaespecierumanimalium et plantarumbinomina. Ratione in duabus partibus usus est ubi primum nomengenus et alterum speciem repraesentaverunt (Capon 2005:220–223).Cryptogamia, una ex classificationibus Linnaeanis, omnes plantas quibus sunt partesreproductivae celatae (bryophyta,marchantiophyta,pteridophyta),algas,fungos comprehendit (Hoek, Mann, et Jahns 2005:9).
Anno1998,Grex Phylogeniae Angiospermarum insigniterphylogeniamplantarum florentium protulit in explicatione sequentiarumDNA ex plurimis plantarum florentium familiis condita. Propter haec studia, multa aenigmata, sicut quae familiae primosangiospermarum ramos repraesentent, soluta sunt. Investigatio coniunctionum specierum plantarum botanistis rationisevolutionis in plantis melius intelligendae facultatem facit (Chase et al. 2003:399–436). Contra studium plantarum exemplarium et crescentem indiciorum DNA usum, taxinomistae in laborando et disputando persistunt de quomodo plantas in variataxa optime describi possunt (Capon 2005:233).
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