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Species Plantarum, (1753), two-volume work by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, in which he established a precise and workable two-word, or binomial, system for naming plants. This system forms the basis of modern plant taxonomy.
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Species Plantarum (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known at the time, classified into genera. It is the first work to consistently apply binomial names and was the starting point for the naming of plants.
Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum diferentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas.
In it, Linnaeus introduced binomial nomenclature for animals, something he had already done for plants in his 1753 publication of Species Plantarum. Starting point [ edit ] Before 1758, most biological catalogues had used polynomial names for the taxa included, including earlier editions of Systema Naturae .
Short title: Species Plantarum Ed. 1, Vol. 1 of 2. Publication date: 1753. Author (s): Linnaeus, Carl. Language: Latin. Full publication metadata. Page Metadata. More about this page. See comments on manuscript. Collection home page.
Oct 1, 2016 · plantarum (1753), is the nomenclatural starting point for the majority of organisms covered by the current Melbourne edition of the International code of nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants
The first edition of Linnaeus' 'Species Plantarum' is the accepted starting point for botanical nomenclature and is an important reference work for systematic botanists as well as a seminal...
