Pre-Darwinian period

Characters constant over large groups have value in developing classification

Organisms have lineages The phylogenetic system developed

Grouping of taxa on the basis of correlation of characters

Rolf Dahlgren (1977, 80, 83, 85)

Robert Thorne (1968, 1999, 2000)

Cronquist
(1981,88)

Stebbins (1986)

Takhtajan (1980,1997)

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (1998, 2003, 2009)

UTILITARIAN : upto 1600; Pliny, Dioscorides etc

ARTIFICIAL : 1600-1800; Tournefort, Linnaeus etc NATURAL : 1600-1900; Bauhin, Ray, Bentham-Hooker etc

PHYLOGENETIC : 1900 onward

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