List of basic botany topics

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Botany is the biological discipline which involves the study of plants.

The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to botany:

Contents 1 Essence of botany 1.1 Branches of botany 1.2 History of botany 2 Kinds of plants 2.1 Major plant groups 2.2 Plants (by common name) 3 Basic plant species concepts 4 Notable botanists 5 Botany lists 6 See also 7 External links 7.1 Flora and other plant catalogs or databases

[edit] Essence of botany

Main article: Botany

Bud Cell wall Chlorophyll Chloroplast Flora Flower Fruit

Forest Leaf Meristem Photosynthesis Plant Plant cell Pollen

Seed Seedling Spore Tree Vine Wood

[edit] Branches of botany

Agronomy Bryology (mosses and liverworts) Ethnobotany Lichenology Mycology (fungi)

Paleobotany Palynology (spores and pollen) Phycology

Plant anatomy Plant ecology Plant morphology Plant physiology Plant taxonomy Pteridology (ferns)

[edit] History of botany

Main articles: History of plant systematics

[edit] Kinds of plants

[edit] Major plant groups

Algae Cyanobacteria Brown algae Charophyta Chlorophyta Desmid Diatom Red algae Green algae

Bryophytes Anthocerotophyta (hornworts) Bryophyta (mosses) Marchantiophyta (liverworts) Pteridophytes Lycopodiophyta (club mosses) Pteridophyta (ferns & horsetails) Rhyniophyta (early plants)

Gymnosperms Pteridospermatophyta (seed "ferns") Cycadophyta Ginkgophyta Gnetophyta Pinophyta (conifers)

Flowering plants Dicotyledon Asteraceae (sunflower family) Cactaceae (cactus family) Fabaceae (legume family) Lamiaceae (mint family) Rosaceae (rose family) Monocotyledon Araceae (arum family) Arecaceae (palm family) Iridaceae (iris family) Orchidaceae (orchid family) Poaceae (grass family)

[edit] Plants (by common name)

Main article: Plant

Some well-known types of plants, listed by their common names:

artichoke

privet watermelon

[edit] Basic plant species concepts

• taxonomy
• clades
  • monophyletic
  • polyphyletic
• speciation
• isolating mechanisms
• concept of species
  • the phenetic species concept
  • the biological species concept
  • the recognition species concept
  • the ecological species concept
  • the pluralistic species concept

[edit] Notable botanists

In alphabetical order by surname:

• Aristotle
• Arthur Cronquist (angiosperm evolution)
• Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
• Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics)
• Gregor Mendel (father of genetics)
• John Ray
• G. Ledyard Stebbins (angiosperm evolution)
• Robert Thorne (angiosperm evolution)
• Gilbert White

[edit] Botany lists

Main article: List of botany topics

[edit] See also

v • d • e Botany Subdisciplines of botany Ethnobotany · Paleobotany · Plant anatomy · Plant ecology · Plant evo-devo · Plant morphology · Plant physiology Plants Evolutionary history of plants · Algae · Bryophyte · Pteridophyte · Gymnosperm · Angiosperm Plant parts Flower · Fruit · Leaf · Meristem · Root · Stem · Stoma · Vascular tissue · Wood Plant cells Cell wall · Chlorophyll · Chloroplast · Photosynthesis · Plant hormone · Plastid · Transpiration Plant life cycles Gametophyte · Plant sexuality · Pollen · Pollination · Seed · Spore · Sporophyte Plant taxonomy Botanical name · Botanical nomenclature · Herbarium · IAPT · ICBN · Species Plantarum Category · Project · Portal

[edit] External links

Find more about Botany on Wikipedia's sister projects:
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	Learning resources

• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
• plant growth and the plant cell from Kimball's Biology Pages
• Botanical Society of America: What is Botany?
• Science and Plants for Schools
• Teaching Documents about Botany Teaching documents, lecture notes and tutorials online: an annotated link directory.
• American society of plant biologists APSB
• Why study Plants? Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
• Botany Photo of the Day

[edit] Flora and other plant catalogs or databases

• The Virtual Library of Botany
• High quality pictures of plants and information about them from Catholic University of Leuven
• Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1790-1856
• The Trees Of Great Britain and Ireland, by Henry John Elwes & Augustine Henry, 1906-1913
• Botanik-Datenbank (ger.)
• Plant Directory (ger.)
• USDA plant database
• The Linnean Society of London
• Native Plant Information Network

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