Semi-Finalist - October, 1999 |
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hotspot - August, 1999 |
The selection options on this
page, and the menu bar below, provide various paths for exploration or
comparison of four systems of flowering plant classification. Selection
of a Family name will query an index of web links relating to that Family
or included taxa. This 'gateway' system - eventually to include all
vascular plants - is under constant revision. Current options (menu
bar at the base of this page) include:
| Cronquist | A 'top down' view of the Cronquist System, starting with the Class/Subclass array and links to Cronquist Subclass pages. This system is used by our course text and the lab herbarium. |
| Takhtajan | An entry to the Takhtajan System, starting with the Class/Subclass array that links to Takhtajan Subclass pages. |
| Thorne | A similar starting view of the Thorne System, with the Subclass, Superorder selection and resolution to Subfamily on Superorder pages. |
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Informal elements of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, with family listings in ordinal sequence where possible and full linkage to family placements of the other systems. |
| Select Family | An alphabetical selection menu that leads to listings of family names with links to either Cronquist or Thorne classification systems or, for non-flowering vascular plants, direct access to internet data for the family via queries to a full text index of URLs. |
| Home | Open this page. Handy if pursuit of family-level links (generated by selection of linked Family names) should lead far afield. |