"Ordines Anomali" of Bentham and Hooker includes :

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"Ordines Anomali" of Bentham and Hooker includes : (A) Seed plants showing abnormal forms of growth and development (B) Plants represented only in fossil state (C) Plants described in the literature but which Bentham and Hooker did not see in original (D) A few orders which could not be placed satisfactory in the classification

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Benthem and Hooker system was published well before there were internationally accepted rules for botanical nomenclature. In this system, terminology for families was not so as it is now.

Q. "Ordines Anomali" of Bentham and Hooker includes :

Seed plants showing abnormal forms of growth and development

Plants represented only in fossil state

Plants described in the literature but which Bentham and Hooker did not see in original

A few orders which could not be placed satisfactory in the classification

Benthem and Hooker system was published well before there were internationally accepted rules for botanical nomenclature. In this system, terminology for families was not so as it is now.