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  • Scientific Classification - The Bogg Mindles

    I'm trying to get my head around the scientific classification of plants (yes it's for the website), it was all making sense until I compared Rhubarb and Chard.

    Rhubarb is:
    Kingdom: Plantae
    Division: Magnoliophyta
    Class: Magnoliopsida
    Order: Caryophyllales
    Family: Polygonaceae
    Genus: Rheum
    Species: R. rhabarbarum

    Chard is:
    Kingdom: Plantae
    (unranked): Angiospermae
    (unranked): Eudicots
    Order: Caryophyllales
    Family: Amaranthaceae
    Genus: Beta
    Species:B. vulgaris
    Subspecies: B. v. var. cicla

    I thought classification was a heirachy, so how can both these plants be in the order "Caryophyllales", but in different divisions and classes?
    The plot thickens even more when you look into what the division "Magnoliophyta" is on Wikipedia only to discover it's just another name for "Angiospermae" (even though Angiospermae is classed as an 'unranked' division whatever that means), and yet the class "Magnoliopsida" says nothing about being similar to "Eudicots"

    It'd be nice if there was an obvious path back to 'Plantae' with simple forks, but this whole classification mumbo-jumbo seems to be more of a maze.

    Is it as complicated as I think, or are some of these terms interchangeable?
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  • #2
    Some are interchangeable; and some have changed over the years so it depends on who wrote the classifications and when...

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    • #3
      Yes, there are several 'versions' of the plant classification system. Division/Class are not universally used. Order/Family/Genus/Species are the ones which (I believe) are universal.....but someone else may be along who knows more :-)
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      • #4
        Chenopodiales, order Caryophyllales, order-Chenopodiales
        plant order - the order of plants
        Caryophyllidae, subclass Caryophyllidae - a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder
        carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, pink family - large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
        Aizoaceae, carpetweed family, family Aizoaceae, family Tetragoniaceae, Tetragoniaceae - succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds
        amaranth family, Amaranthaceae, family Amaranthaceae - cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
        Batidaceae, family Batidaceae, saltwort family - family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts
        Chenopodiaceae, family Chenopodiaceae, goosefoot family - includes spinach and beets
        Allioniaceae, family Allioniaceae, family Nyctaginaceae, four-o'clock family, Nyctaginaceae - a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales
        family Phytolaccaceae, Phytolaccaceae, pokeweed family - chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca, Agdestis, Ercilla, Rivina, Trichostigma
        family Portulacaceae, Portulacaceae, purslane family - family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas

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        • #5
          What a shot of light.

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