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    (Semester IV)

    Paper 8: PLANT SYSTEMATICS

    THEORY

    Unit 1: Plant identification, Classification, Nomenclature; Biosystematics. (2 lectures)

    Unit 2: Identification
    Field inventory; Functions of Herbarium; Important herbaria and botanical gardens of the world
    and India; Virtual herbarium; E-flora; Documentation: Flora, Monographs, Journals; Keys:
    Single access and Multi-access (6 lectures)

    Unit 3: Systematics- an interdisciplinary science


    Evidence from palynology, cytology, phytochemistry and molecular data. (8 lectures)

    Unit 4: Taxonomic hierarchy


    Concept of taxa (family, genus, species); Categories and taxonomic hierarchy; Species concept
    (taxonomic, biological, evolutionary). (5 lectures)

    Unit 5: Botanical nomenclature


    Principles and rules (ICN); Ranks and names; Typification, author citation, valid publication,
    rejection of names, principle of priority and its limitations; Names of hybrids. (9 lectures)

    Unit 6: Systems of classification


    Major contributions of Theophrastus, Bauhin, Tournefort, Linnaeus, Adanson, de Candolle,
    Bessey, Hutchinson, Takhtajan and Cronquist; Classification systems of Bentham and Hooker
    (upto series) and Engler and Prantl (upto series); Brief reference of Angiosperm Phylogeny
    Group (APG III) classification. (8 lectures)

    Unit 7: Biometrics, numerical taxonomy and cladistics


    Characters; Variations; OTUs, character weighting and coding; cluster analysis; Phenograms,
    cladograms (definitions and differences). (5 lectures)

    Unit 8: Phylogeny of Angiosperms


    Terms and concepts (primitive and advanced, homology and analogy, parallelism and
    convergence, monophyly, Paraphyly and polyphyly. (5 lectures)

    1
    PRACTICALS

    1. Study of vegetative and floral characters of the following families (Description, V.S.
    flower, section of ovary, floral diagram/s, floral formula/e and systematic position
    according to Bentham & Hooker’s system of classification):
    Ranunculaceae - Ranunculus, Delphinium

    Brassicaceae - Brassica, Alyssum / Iberis

    Myrtaceae - Eucalyptus, Callistemon

    Umbelliferae - Coriandrum /Anethum / Foeniculum

    Asteraceae - Sonchus/Launaea, Vernonia/Ageratum, Eclipta/Tridax

    Solanaceae - Solanum nigrum/Withania

    Lamiaceae - Salvia/Ocimum

    Euphorbiaceae - Euphorbia hirta/E.milii, Jatropha

    Liliaceae - Asphodelus/Lilium/Allium

    Poaceae - Triticum/Hordeum/Avena

    2. Field visit (local) – Subject to grant of funds from the university.


    3. Mounting of a properly dried and pressed specimen of any wild plant with herbarium
    label (to be submitted in the record book).

    ESSENTIAL READINGS

    1. Singh, (2012). Plant Systematics: Theory and Practice Oxford & IBH Pvt. Ltd., New
    Delhi. 3rd edition.
    2. Jeffrey, C. (1982). An Introduction to Plant Taxonomy. Cambridge University Press,
    Cambridge.
    3. Judd, W.S., Campbell, C.S., Kellogg, E.A., Stevens, P.F. (2002). Plant Systematics-A
    Phylogenetic Approach. Sinauer Associates Inc., U.S.A. 2nd edition.
    4. Maheshwari, J.K. (1963). Flora of Delhi. CSIR, New Delhi.
    5. Radford, A.E. (1986). Fundamentals of Plant Systematics. Harper and Row, New York.

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