Multiple choice

Genera Plantarum was written by:

  1. Engler Prantl

  2. Hutchinson

  3. Bentham and Hooker

  4. Bessey
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Explanation

Genera Plantarum (1862-1883) was the monumental three-volume work by George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker that established a natural system of plant classification. Engler and Prantl later developed their own system, while Hutchinson proposed an alternative classification based on evolutionary principles. Bessey developed phylogenetic taxonomy in America.

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