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• Week 1: Introduction: Importance and relationship with other sciences, Phases of plant taxonomy
• Week 2: Origin and radiation of angiosperm, their probable ancestors, when, where and how did the angiosperms evolve; the earliest fossil records of angiosperms.
• Week 3: Concept of Species: What is a species? Taxonomic species, Biological species
• Week 4: Micro and macro species, Species aggregate. Infra specific categories. Speciation: Mechanism of speciation, Mutation and hybridization
• Week 5: Mechanism of speciation: Geographical isolation, Reproductive isolation, Gradual and abrupt
• Week 6: Variation: Types of variation, Continuous and discontinuous variation, Clinal variation
• Week 7: Systematics and Genecology / Biosystematics: Introduction and importance, Methodology of conducting biosystematics studies
• Week 8: Various biosystematics categories such as ecophene, ecotype, ecospecies, coenospecies and comparium. Taxonomic Evidence: Importance and types of taxonomic evidences
• Week 9: MID TERM EXAMINATION
• Week 10: Taxonomic Evidence: anatomical, cytological, chemical, molecular, palynological, geographical and embryological
• Week 11: Nomenclature:Important rules of botanical nomenclature including effective and valid publication, typification
• Week 12: principles of priority and its limitations, author citation, rank of main taxonomic categories, conditions for rejecting names
• Week 13: Classification:Why classification is necessary? Importance of predictive value. Brief history
• Week 14: Different systems of classification with at least one example of each (Linnaeus, Bentham and Hooker, Engler and Prantle, Bessey, Cronquist, Takhtajan, and Dahlgren)