Selected Families of Angiosperms

The plant kingdom is vast and endlessly varied, and has been organised over time into Artificial, Natural, Phylogenetic and APG systems - the Bentham and Hooker natural system was followed in India until recently. Considerable variation occurs not just between different families but within a single family's genera and species, in habit and in the number, arrangement, adhesion and cohesion of floral parts. This section studies six selected angiosperm families in detail purely to understand the PROCESS and PURPOSE of classification: the dicot families Fa …