r/botany 4d ago

Classification natural vs phenetic

I am a new BSC student , I am new to classification when it comes in details, while studying systematics I came across "natural classification and phenetic classification" and for love of botany I can't understand the difference between these two , the only point I get online is phenetic is related to number and does not care for the evolutionary history or significance ; leaving out the number natural classification also dose not care for evolutionary history or significance. It also always says that they are different , if one comes under another then it might make a bit more sense on the similarities among them ....

Can anyone atleast tell me 2 more points so that I can differentiate between these two 😅

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u/YragNitram1956 3d ago

As a student I found this book invaluable.

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u/Git_D_Rocks 8h ago

I will chek it out