606-202 Plant Biodiversity

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The aim of this subject is to familiarise you with the range of systematic and structural diversity in land plants and stimulate your interest in these remarkable plants whenever you are outside in a forest or in your garden.
This subject introduces the major groups of land plants from liverworts to angiosperms, concentrating on their structure, biology and systematic relationships and evolution. Topics covered include:

• evolution, relationships and classification of land plants;
• major groups of land plants, liverworts, mosses, ferns and seed plants; their structure, biology and fossil record; and
• major families of flowering plants, including Australian flora, their characteristics and identification