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Leaf shape is the most common tool used to identify trees

Dendrology (Ancient Greek: , dendron, "tree"; and Ancient Greek: -, -logia,science of or study of) or xylology (Ancient Greek: , ksulon, "wood") is the science and study of wooded plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas). There is no sharp boundary between plant taxonomy and dendrology. However, woody plants not only belong to many different plantfamilies, but these families may be made up of both woody and non-woody members. Some families include only a few woody species. This severely limits the usefulness of a strictly dendrological approach. Dendrology tends to focus on economically useful woody plants, their identification and horticultural or silvicultural properties.

Taxonomy
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This page is about taxonomy of biological organisms. For other uses see Taxonomy (general) and Taxonomy (disambiguation) Taxonomy (from ancient Greek taxis, arrangement, and nomia, method)[1] is the academic discipline of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups. Each group is given a rank and groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a super group of higher rank and thus create a hierarchical classification.[2][3] The groups created through this process are referred to as taxa (singular taxon). An example of a modern classification is the one published in 2009 by theAngiosperm Phylogeny Group for all living flowering plant families (the APG III system).[4] Definitions

The exact definition of taxonomy varies slightly from source to source, but the core of the discipline remains: the conception, naming, and classification of organism groups. As points of reference, three recent textbook definitions are presented below: 1. Theory and practice of grouping individuals into species, arranging species into larger groups, [2] and giving those groups names, thus producing a classification; 2. A field of science (and major component of systematics) that encompasses description, [3] identification, nomenclature, and classification; 3. The science of classification, in biology the arrangement of organisms into a classification.
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