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Plant systematics: an overview -- Taxonomy and phylogenetic systematics -- Evolution and diversity of green and land plants -- Evolution an diversity of vascular plants.

Plant Systematics, Third Edition, has made substantial contributions to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level, with the first edition winning The New York Botanical Garden's Henry Allan Gleason Award for outstanding recent publication in plant taxonomy, plant ecology or plant geography. This third edition continues to provide the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution, and classification of land plants. A foundation of the approach, methods, research goals, evidence, and terminology of plant systematics is presented, along with the most recent knowledge of evolutionary relationships of plants and practical information vital to the field.