Takhtajan system

A system of plant taxonomy, the Takhtajan system of plant classification was published by Armen Takhtajan, in several versions from the 1950s onwards. It is usually compared to the Cronquist system. It admits paraphyletic groups.

1966 system

• Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae) ^[1] p. 51
  • Class: Magnoliatae (Dicotyledones) p. 51
  • Class: Liliatae (Monocotyledones) p. 461
    • Subclass A: Alismidae p. 461
    • Subclass B: Liliidae p. 473 nom. nov.
      • Superorder Lilianae p. 473 nom. nov.
        • Order Liliales p. 473
          • Family Liliaceae p. 474
          • Family Xanthorrhoeaceaep. 476
          • Family Aphyllanthaceaep. 476
          • Family Alliaceae p. 477
          • Family Agavaceae p. 478
          • Family Amaryllidaceae p. 480
          • Family Alstroemeriaceae p. 481
          • Family Haemodoraceae p. 482
          • Family Hypoxidaceae p. 483
          • Family Velloziaceae p. 483
          • Family Philesiaceae p. 484
          • Family Tecophilaeaceae p. 484
          • Family Cyanastraceae p. 485
          • Family Asparagaceae p. 486
          • Family Smilacaceae p. 487
          • Family Stemonaceae p. 487
          • Family Dioscoreaceae p. 488
          • Family Taccaceae p. 489
          • Family Phylydraceae p. 491
          • Family Pontederiaceae p. 490
        • Order Bromeliales p. 492
        • Order Iridales p. 494
        • Order Zingiberales p. 498
        • Order Orchidales p. 505
      • Superorder Juncanae p. 510
    • Subclass C: Commelinidae p. 461
    • Subclass D: Arecidae p. 525

2009 system

As published in Flowering Plants^[2]

• Phylum Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants) Cronquist, Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal (1996)^[3]
  • Class Magnoliopsida Brongn. (1843) (Dicotyledons) p. 7
  • Class Liliopsida Scop. (1760) (Monocotyledons) p. 595
    • Subclass I: Alismatidae p. 589
    • Subclass II: Liliidae Takht. (1966) p. 625
      • Superorder Lilianae Takht. (1966)
        • Order Melanthiales R. Dahlgren ex Reveal (1992)
        • Order Trilliales Takht. (1996)
        • Order Liliales Perleb (1826)
          • 1. Family Campynemataceae
          • 2. Family Colchicaceae
          • 3. Family Tricyrtidaceae
          • 4. Family Scoliopaceae p. 634
          • 5. Family Calochortaceae p. 634
          • 6. Family Liliaceae Juss., nom. cons. (1789) p. 634
          • 7. Family Medeolaceae (S. Wats.) Takht. (1987) p. 634
        • Order Burmanniales
        • Order Alstroemeriales Hutch. (1934)
        • Order Smilacales
        • Order Orchidales
        • Order Iridales
        • Order Amaryllidales
        • Order Asparagales
      • Superorder Pandananae
      • Superorder Dioscoreanae Takht., nom. inval. (1997)
      • Superorder Arecanae
    • Subclass III: Arecidae p. 693
    • Subclass IV: Commelinidae p. 699

References

1. Takhtajan 1966, p. 51.
2. Takhtajan 2009, Synopsis of families pp. xxxvii–xlv.
3. Takhtajan 2009, p. 1.

Bibliography

• Takhtajan, Armen Leonovich (1966). "Lilianae". Система и филогения цветкорых растений (Sistema i filogeniia tsvetkovykh rastenii) [Systema et Phylogemia Magnoliophytorum] (in Russian). trans. C Jeffrey, as Flowering plants: Origin and dispersal, Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, 1969. Moscow: Наука. p. 473. ISBN 0-05-001715-2. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
• Cronquist, Arthur; Takhtajan, Armen; Zimmermann, Walter (April 1966). "On the Higher Taxa of Embryobionta". Taxon 15 (4): 129–134. doi:10.2307/1217531. JSTOR 1217531.
• Takhtajan, A. (1980). "Outline of the classification of flowering plants (Magnoliophya)". Botanical Review 46 (3): 225–359. doi:10.1007/BF02861558.
• Takhtajan, Armen (1991). Evolutionary trends in flowering plants. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. ISBN 9780231073288.
• Takhtajan, Armen Leonovich (2009). Flowering Plants. Springer. ISBN 1-4020-9609-7. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
• Singh, Gurcharan (2004). "Armen Takhtajan". Plant Systematics: An Integrated Approach. Science Publishers. pp. 269–277. ISBN 1-57808-351-6. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
• Reveal, James (22 November 1998). "Lists of the Flowering Plant Taxa Accepted by Cronquist, Dahlgren, Reveal, Takhtajan & Thorne". Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature. University of Maryland: Norton-Brown Herbarium. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
• Reveal, James L (5 Nov 1997). "Takhtajan System of Classification" (pbio 250 Lecture Notes). Plant Systematics. University of Maryland: Norton-Brown Herbarium. Retrieved 10 January 2016.

External links

• Takhtajan system at CSDL, Texas. Also, at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland (with an extensive listing of synonyms, both nomenclatural and taxonomic, for each name in the system): 1, 2, 3
• Angiosperm Classification according to Armen Takhtajan, 1966