Flowering Plants

The author is one of the greatest botanists of the 20th century who was awarded "The Henry Allan Gleason Award" by the New York Botanical Garden  for the book "Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants" (1997). Citation: This work, which is a complete classification of the angiosperms to the genus level, is the culmination of over sixty years of research in botany focusing on flowering plants systematics and phytogeography.

• Preface.- Foreword.- Introduction.- Synopsis.- Phylum Magnoliophyta.- Class MAGNOLIOPSIDA: Subclass I. Magnoliidae.- Subclass II. Ranunculidae.- Subclass III. Hamamelididae.- Subclass IV. Caryophyllidae.- Subclass V. Dilleniidae.- Subclass VI. Rosidae.- Subclass VII. Asteridae.- Subclass VIII. Lamiidae.- Class ILIOPSIDA: Subclass I. Alismatidae.- Subclass II. Liliidae.- Subclass III. Arecidae.- Subclass IV. Commelinidae.- Index.

From the foreword by Peter Raven Takhtajan's most important achievement has been the development of his phylogenetic system of the flowering plants, a system that has greatly influenced all other recent systems of classification ... The classification presented in the current book should be understood as a summary of a life's study of plants and the system that his insights support - the work of a very great botanist that takes into account not only his own meticulous studies but as much of the contemporary information as he was able to assimilate and take into account. ... The new insights and ideas in the book likewise will inspire new levels of thinking about the relationships between the families of angiosperms and their evolutionary history, including the convergent and parallel evolution of particular features. (excerpt from the foreword by Peter Raven)