Outline of botany
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The following outline is an overview of and topical guide to botany, the biological academic discipline involving the study of plants.
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Core concepts
Subdisciplines
- Agronomy
- Bryology (mosses and liverworts)
- Dendrology (woody plants)
- Economic botany
- Ethnobotany
- Horticulture
- Lichenology (lichens)
- Mycology (fungi)
- Paleobotany
- Palynology (spores and pollen)
- Phycology (algae)
- Phytosociology
- Plant anatomy
- Plant ecology
- Plant evolution
- Plant genetics
- Plant morphology
- Plant pathology
- Plant physiology
- Plant taxonomy
- Pteridology (ferns)
History
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 and horsetails)
- Rhyniophyta (early plants)
- Gymnosperms
- Pteridospermatophyta (seed ferns)
- Cycadophyta
- Ginkgophyta
- Gnetophyta
- Pinophyta (conifers)
- Angiosperms
- Dicotyledon
- Asteraceae (sunflowers)
- Cactaceae (cacti)
- Fabaceae (legumes)
- Lamiaceae (mints)
- Rosaceae (roses)
- Monocotyledon
- Araceae (aroids)
- Arecaceae (palms)
- Iridaceae (irises)
- Orchidaceae (orchids)
- Poaceae (grasses)
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General species concepts
Notable botanists
In alphabetical order by surname:
- Aristotle
- Arthur Cronquist (angiosperm evolution)
- Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
- Carl Linnaeus (father of systematics)
- Gregor Mendel (father of genetics)
- John Ray
- G. Ledyard Stebbins (angiosperm evolution)
- Theophrastus (uses and classification)
- Robert Thorne (angiosperm evolution)
- Gilbert White
- List of Russian botanists
Scholarly societies
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071012225215/http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/ Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation]
- [https://www.biology-pages.info/P/PlantGrowth.html Plant growth] and [https://www.biology-pages.info/P/PlantCell.html the plant cell] from [https://www.biology-pages.info/ Kimball's Biology Pages]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20210306224932/https://botany.org/home/careers-jobs/careers-in-botany/what-is-botany.html Botanical Society of America: What is Botany?]
- [https://www.saps.org.uk/ Science & Plants for Schools]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060814181712/http://uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/palbot/teach/botanyteach.html Teaching Documents about Botany] Teaching documents, lecture
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071209044556/http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/teaching/content.html Why study Plants? Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge]
;Flora and other plant catalogs or databases
- [https://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/www-vl/ The Virtual Library of Botany]
- [http://www.kulak.ac.be/bioweb/ High quality pictures of plants and information about them] from Catholic University of Leuven
- [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/QK1xC981/ Curtis's Botanical Magazine], 1790–1856
- [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/QK488xE4/ The Trees Of Great Britain and Ireland], by Henry John Elwes & Augustine Henry, 1906–1913
- [http://www.pflanzen-portal.com Botanik-Datenbank] (ger.)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090427160031/http://green-24.de/search/botanik/pflanzen/index.html Plant Directory] (ger.)
- [https://plants.usda.gov/home USDA plant database]
- [https://www.linnean.org/ The Linnean Society of London]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090510230926/http://wildflower.utexas.edu/ Native Plant Information Network]
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