Practical Taxonomy of Angiosperms

Practical Taxonomy of Angiosperms presents the subject in a systematic manner with well labelled diagrams and flow charts. A sincere effort has been made to make this book more informative and useful by covering all the important aspects of the subject. Spread in five chapters it deals with: Morphology of angiosperms where terminology used in taxonomic description of plants is arranged alphabeticallyunder subheads stem, leaves, flowers etc. Taxonomy of angiosperms. Principles of taxonomy, handling of an artificial key to a flora and diagnostic features of common angiospermic families. Description, systematization and identification of 84 plants of 44 families of angiosperms. Brief account of 143 plants of different families. Comparison of allied common angiospermic families in tabular form. Economic importance of 106 familiar plants. Differences between allied terminology (e.g. phyllode, phylloclade, silqua & siliqula.) are presented in tabular form. Artificial key to the common families of angiosperms. Upgraded standard of practical exercises on plant taxonomy.