Forest Plant Taxonomy Flashcards
He is credited for conducting botanical surveys of selected sites in the Philippines and published Flora de Filipinas
Father Manuel Blanco
A spanish forester built a herbarium for Forestry Bureau but destroyed by fire on September 1897
Sebastian Vidal
Established one of the largest herbaria in the Southeast asia and built a rich botanical library but destroy during the second World War
Elmer D Merrill
He took the tasked of rebuilding the museum and library
Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing
The science that deals with the comprehensive study of the diversity of organism and their relationship particularly evolutionary/phylogenetic relationship
Systematics
A component of systematics that deals with the principles and procedures of classification
Taxonomy
Refers to assignments of plants to group within a system or hierarchy of rank/category
Classification
Deals with the principles and procedure involve in naming taxa
Nomenclature
Refers to any taxonomic category or rank
Taxon/taxa
The branch of forestry that deals with the study of trees and other woody plants including their classification, nomenclature, identification, morphology, anatomy, phenology, geographic distribution and economic importance
Dendrology
The study of structure and form of plants, usually dealing with organism and its components organs
Morphology
The study of spatial relationships of past and present plants
Plant Geography
Confined only within a given island or biogeographic related islands
Endemic Species
Species with geographical distribution extending even outside the Philippines
Non-endemic indigenous
Species being introduce in the country
Exotic species
