Q. Explain the types of classification of plants?

It is practically impossible for anyone to study all the plants of the world, 'even if one spends whole life. Thus, it is necessary to place them into small or large groups on the basis of their similarities and differences. These groups are then arranged ,according to their rank, such as order, family, genus, and species etc. For example, similar individuals are grouped or classified under a species, similar species under a genus, similar genera under a family and similar families into an order and SO on.

Diagrarnatic representation of classification

Basically there are three kinds of classification : artificial, natural and phylogenetic.

Artificial Classification

When plants are classified for the sake of convenience only, using some arbitrary or easily observable characteristics the classification is called artificial. One of the most familiar artificial system is that of Linnaeus, where he employed number of stamens as one of the important characters in his system of classification.