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Botany: Suggested Websites

Native Plants of Hawaii and the Pacific

Botanical Names/Families/Taxonomy

Erythrina sandwicensis

Image From: Forest & Kim Starr

Hawaiian Ethnobotany ONLINE Database

Passiflora tarminiana

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What is Taxonomy?

TAXONOMY is the classification of organisms based on natural and evolutionary relationships, which are decided on with morphological and physiological similarities. 

These natural relationships are ordered in a hierarchical system:

Kingdom

   Phylum

      Class

         Order

            Family

               Genus

                  Species

Example:

Apple Guave (Psidium guajava L.)

Plantae

   Magnoliophyta

      Magnoliopsida

         Myrtales

            Myrtaceae

               Psidium

                  Psidium guajava L.

     

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