A system of plant taxonomy, the Takhtajan system of plant classification was published by Armen Takhtajan, in several versions from the 1950's onwards. It is usually compared to the Cronquist system. This list of systems of plant taxonomy presents âtaxonomic systemsâ used in plant classification. ... Armen Takhtajan (born 1910) is a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th Century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. ... The Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). ...
References :
A. Takhtajan (in Russian, 1966). A system and phylogeny of the flowering plants.
A. Takhtajan (1969, transl. from Russian by C. Jeffrey). Flowering plants: origin and dispersal.
A. Takhtajan (1980). "Outline of the classification of flowering plants (Magnoliophya)". Botanical Review46: 225-359.
Takhtajan system at CSDL, Texas. Also at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland (with an extensive listing of nomenclatural synonyms at each name): 1, 2, 3