CLASSIFICATION OF
PLANTS
GROUP 2:
JOEBERT V. DELOS SANTOS
ROCHELLE B. BENAVENTE
GLYDEL F. BELENCIO
BSE-1 FILIPINO
CONTENT:
●CLASSIFICATION OF
PLANTS
●IMPORTANCE OF
CLASSIFIYING OF PLANTS
●ACTIVITY
HOW ARE PLANTS CLASSIFIED?
Science classifies living things in an
orderly system through which they can
be readily identified. Living things are
grouped into categories of increasing
size, based upon relationships within
those categories.
CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS
CLASS
- Angiosperms → plants which produce flowers.
- Gymnosperms → plants which don’t produce
flowers.
• SUBCLASS
-Dicotyledons, Dicots → plants with two seed
leaves.
- Monocotyledons, Monocots → plants with one
seed leaf.
• SUPERORDER
-A group of related plant families, classified in the order in
which they are thought to have developed their differences
from a common ancestor.
-There are six super order in the Dicotyledon:
→ mognoliidae, hamamelidae ,caryophyllidae, dileniidae,
rosidae and asteridae .
- four super orders in monocotyledon:
→ alismatidae, commelinidae, arecidae and liliidae.
● ORDER
-Each superorders is further divided into several Orders.
FAMILY
→Each order is divided into families. This are plants with
many botanical feature in common, and is the highest
classification normally used. At this level, the similarity
between plants is often easily recognizable by the layman.
→Modern botanical classification assigns a type plant to
each family, which has the particular characteristics which
separate this group of plants from others, and names the
family after this plant.
→The number of plant families varies according to the
botanist whose classification you follow.
SUBFAMILY
The family may be further divided into a
number of sub-families, which group
together plants within the family that have
some significant botanical differences.
•TRIBE
→A further division of plants within a
family, based on smaller botanical
differences, but still usually
comprising many different plants.
•SUBTRIBE
→A further division, based on even
smaller botanical differences, often
only recognisable to botanists.
GENUS
→This is the part of the plant name that is
most familiar, the normal name that you
give a plant –Papaver(Poppy),
Aquilegia(Columbine), and so on. The
plants in a Genus are often easily
recognizable as belonging to the same
group.
SPECIES
→This is the level that defines an individual plant.
Often, the name will describe some aspect of the
plant-the color of the flowers, size or shape of
the leaves, or it may be named after the place
where it was found. Together, the Genus and
species name differ refer to only one plant, and
they are used to identify that particular plant.
Sometimes, the species is further divided into
sub-species that contain plants not quite so
distinct that they classified as varieties.
VARIETY
→A variety is a plant that is only slightly
different from the species plant, but the
differences are not so significant as the
differences in a form. The Latin is a
varietas, which is usually abbreviated to
var.
FORM
→A form is a plant within a species that
has minor botanical differences, such
as ha colour of flower or shape of the
leaves.
CULTIVAR
→A Cultivar is a cultivated variety, a particular
plant that has arisen either naturally or though
deliberate hybridization, and can be reproduced
(vegetable or by seed) to produced more of the
same plant.
Importance of classifying of plants.
1. It shows relationships among
different species.
2. We can know characteristics of a
group, so that tells us
characteristics of the species
within that group.
3. It provides us with an organized
way of studying those plants
