Glumiflorae is a descriptive botanical name. Descriptive botanical names: Article 16 of the ICBN rules that a name above the rank of family may be either descriptive or formed from the name It was used in the Wettstein system for an order of flowering plants. A system of plant taxonomy, the Wettstein system recognised the following main groups according to I This article is about the taxonomic rank for the sequence of species in a taxonomic list see Taxonomic order In scientific classification used The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group The order consisted of one family only:
The APG II system, used here, assigns the grass family to the order Poales. Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. Poales is an order of Flowering plants in the Monocotyledons and includes families of plants such as the grasses, Bromeliads, Other names for the order including the grass family are Glumaceae and Graminales. Glumaceae is a descriptive botanical name. It was used in the Bentham & Hooker system (volume of 1883 for the order including the grass family
However, this name Glumiflorae was used in the Hutchinson system (first edition, first volume, 1926) for a taxon (above the rank of order) that included the grass family. A system of plant taxonomy, the Hutchinson system was published in This classification is according to the 1st Edition in 2 volumes 1926–1934 Volume 1 A taxon (plural taxa) or taxonomic unit, is a name designating an organism or a group of Organisms In Biological nomenclature according to
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