Question

What is classification based on floral characters and phylogenetic classification?

Answer 1

classifications based on floral characteristics
Floral Characteristics:

• Flower: Bracteate, pedicellate, incomplete, actinomorphic, bisexual, hypogynous, trimerous
• Tepals: Tepals 6, two whorls of three each, petaloid, white.
• Androecium: Stamens 6, polyandrous, antiphyllous, anther basifixed, dithecous.
• Gynoecium: Tricarpellary, syncarpous, ovary superior, trilocular, axile placentation.

Reason for identification:

Flowers are trimerous, petaloid perianth in two whorls of 3 each, stamens 6 in two whorls of 3 each, epiphyllous, ovary tricarpellary, trilocular with axile placentation

Phylogenetic classification
It is based on evolutionary ancestry and generates trees called cladograms. Cladistics also identifies clades, which are groups of organisms that include an ancestor species and its descendants. Classifying organisms on the basis of descent from a common ancestor is called phylogenetic classification.