Stebbins system explained

The Stebbins system is an angiosperm plants classification drawn up by the American botanist G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000). The system was published in the book Flowering plants: evolution above the species level (1974),^{[1] [2]} and was followed by Vernon Heywood (b. 1927) in his Flowering plants of the world (1978).^[3]

Classification

Flowering plants

• Dicotyledons
  • Magnoliidae
  • Hamamelidae
  • Caryophyllidae
  • Dilleniidae
  • Rosidae
  • Asteridae
• Monocotyledons
  • Alismatidae
  • Commelinidae
  • Arecidae
  • Liliidae

Notes and References

1. Stebbins, G.L. (1974). Flowering plants: evolution above the species level. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, https://books.google.com/books?id=L1jwAAAAMAAJ.
2. Subrahmanyam, N. S. (1995). Modern Plant Taxonomy. Jangpura, New Delhi: Vikas, p. 119, https://books.google.com/books?id=m51GS7iOTigC.
3. Heywood, V.H. (ed., 1978). Flowering plants of the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, https://books.google.com/books?id=foPwAAAAMAAJ.