Outline of botany
The following outline is an overview of and topical guide to botany, the biological academic discipline involving the study of plants.
Core concepts
[edit]- Bud
- Cell wall
- Chlorophyll
- Chloroplast
- Flora
- Flower
- Fruit
- Forest
- Leaf
- Meristem
- Photosynthesis
- Plant
- Plant cell
- Pollen
- Seed
- Seedling
- Spore
- Tree
- Vine
- Wood
Subdisciplines
[edit]- 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
[edit]Major plant groups
[edit]- 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)
- Dicotyledon
Lists
[edit]- List of culinary fruits
- List of edible seeds
- List of culinary herbs and spices
- List of culinary nuts
- List of vegetables
- List of woods
General species concepts
[edit]- Plant taxonomy
- Clades
- Speciation
- Isolating mechanisms
- Concept of species
Notable botanists
[edit]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
[edit]External links
[edit]- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
- Plant growth and the plant cell from Kimball's Biology Pages
- Botanical Society of America: What is Botany?
- Science & Plants for Schools
- Teaching Documents about Botany Teaching documents, lecture
- Why study Plants? Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
- Flora and other plant catalogs or databases
- The Virtual Library of Botany
- High quality pictures of plants and information about them from Catholic University of Leuven
- Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1790–1856
- The Trees Of Great Britain and Ireland, by Henry John Elwes & Augustine Henry, 1906–1913
- Botanik-Datenbank (ger.)
- Plant Directory (ger.)
- USDA plant database
- The Linnean Society of London
- Native Plant Information Network
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