TY - BOOK AU - Stuessy,Tod F. TI - Plant taxonomy: the systematic evaluation of comparative data SN - 9780231147125 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - QK95 .S78 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Plants KW - Classification N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-484) and indexes; A few definitions -- The relevance of systematics -- The importance and universality of classification -- Characters -- The anatomy of classification and the artificial approach -- Natural and phyletic approaches -- The phenetic approach -- The cladistic approach -- Evaluations of the three major approaches and explicit phyletics -- The taxonomic hierarchy -- The species -- The subspecies, variety, and form -- The genus -- The family and higher categories -- Morphology -- Anatomy -- Embryology -- Palynology -- Phytochemistry -- Cytology and cytogenetics -- Molecular biology -- Genetics and population genetics -- Reproductive biology -- Ecology -- The gathering and storage of data -- The presentation of data UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008028614.html ER -