Question

Who has written the book ‘Genera Plantarum’?
(a)Hutchinson
(b)Engler and Prantl
(c)Eichler
(d)Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 1

The book Genera Plantarum was written by a botanist from Sweden. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy. He was the first to frame principles for the description of natural genera and species of organisms and to establish a standardized (binomial nomenclature) method for naming them.

Complete answer:
Genera Plantarum is a publication by Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), a Swedish naturalist. Genera Plantarum's first edition includes brief descriptions of the 935 genera of plants known to Linnaeus at that time. It is dedicated to Herman Boerhaave, a physician from Leiden who introduced George Clifford to Linnaeus and the Dutch medico-botanical establishment of the day.
In his method of classification, plants are grouped according to the number of stamens and pistils in a flower, as used by Genera Plantarum. In the 1753 edition of Species Plantarum, which is now taken as the starting point for all botanical nomenclature, Linnaeus developed the system of binomial nomenclature through the widespread acceptance of his list of plants. Genera Plantarum was an important part of the first step towards a standardized universal biological nomenclature.

Additional Information: Die natürlichen pflanzen familien was written by Engler and Prantl. Huchinson has written a book entitled 'the Flowering Plant Families'.
To represent the idea of evolution, Eichler was a German botanist who established a new method of plant classification.
Bentham and Hooker provided extensive keys for the simple recognition of 202 natural orders and genders in their monumental work Genera Plantarum (1862-1883).
So, the correct answer is, ‘Carolus Linnaeus’.

Note: In Leiden, 1737, the first edition was published. A supplementary volume to Species Plantarum (1753) served as the fifth edition. Article 13 of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants notes that 'the first subsequent classification is given under those names in Linnaeus' Genera Plantarum ed. 5 (1754) and ed. 6 (1764) is compatible with the generic names occurring in Linnaeus' Species Plantarum ed. 1 (1753) and ed. 2 (1762-63)’.