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A brief survey of a few of the larger plant families will show some of the variation found in flowering plants, demonstrate the use of multiple characteristics in the delimitation of categories, and furnish a core of valuable information for further work in plant taxonomy.

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Bell, C.R. (1967). Plant Families. In: Plant Variation and Classification. Fundamentals of Botany Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00430-0_8

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