Organizing the Green World

A Conceptual History of Botanical Classification

Tod F. Stuessy

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Springer International Publishing AG
31 May 2025

History of science; Taxonomy & systematics; Evolution; Developmental biology; Botany & plant sciences

This book focuses on plant systematics and evolution, with special interest on the history and philosophy of botanical classification. Tracing the history of how humans have dealt with ordering the plant world is very much a glimpse of how human culture and science have progressed over the past 2000 years. The objective in this book is to present ideas on plant classification beginning with classical Greek and Roman scholars, through the Middle Ages, into the Renaissance, and finally to the modern 21st century. Significant quantitative methods in classification have originated within the past 70 years, which have never before been integrated with previous historical perspectives. Most textbooks of systematic botany contain an historical introduction or perhaps a chapter on the history of classification, but this book presents much greater detail on the classifications themselves and the cultural dimensions of the different time periods. Biographical detail is also provided to give a better appreciation of the individual botanists who have contributed new ideas in the search for maximally predictive systems.

By: Tod F. Stuessy
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9783031803833
ISBN 10: 3031803833
Pages: 373
Publication Date: 31 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tod F. Stuessy is Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University and the University of Vienna. His research involves systematics, evolution, and biogeography of flowering plants, especially Asteraceae. He has published over 300 articles and 17 books dealing with different aspects of systematics including monography, phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses, and population genetic investigations. He has been interested in the evolution of plants of oceanic archipelagoes, especially in the Robinson Crusoe Islands, Chile. He has been President of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) and Secretary-General of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT). For lifetime achievement in plant systematics, he has received the Asa Gray Award from the ASPT and the Engler Medal in Gold from the IAPT.