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Flora is all plant species that have appeared in a particular area during historical development. It is closely related to the natural conditions and geological past of this territory.
The term flora implies all plants of a given territory, but in practice it unites only fern-like and seed plants. Other plants are usually called according to the department: the flora of mosses – Brioflora, the flora of algae – Algoflora and others.
The term “Flora” originated from the ancient Roman goddess Flora, the goddess of fertility, flowers, youth and spring blossom. It was first used in 1656 by the Polish botanist Michal Piotr Boym in his work Flora of China.
There is a section in botany for the study of flora and it is called floristics.
The inventory and correlation of plant groups in a particular area is taken as the basis of a system that divides the Earth into natural floristic units :
Realms,
Regions,
Provinces,
Districts,
floristic regions,
Districts of specific floras.
Plant Identification, Classification, and Description
To study the billions of different plants now living on Earth and already extinct, biologists sorted, and classified them based on certain similarities and differences.
Identification
Plant identification is the identification of an unknown plant by comparison with previously collected specimens or by using identification books or manuals. The identification process associates the specimen with the published name. Once a plant specimen has been identified, its name and properties become known.
Classification
Plant classification is the placing of known plants into groups or categories to show certain relationships. Scientific classification follows a system of rules that standardizes the results, and groups successive categories into a hierarchy.
Classification of plants results in an organized system for naming and cataloging future specimens, and ideally reflects scientific ideas about the relationships among them. A set of rules and guidelines for official botanical nomenclature, including plants, is governed by the “International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants,” abbreviated ICDN.
Description
A plant description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific document using the ICDN guidelines. These plant names are then recorded in the “International Index of Scientific Plant Names – IPNI” along with all other officially published names.
