Abstract
The amentiferous concept developed in pre-Linnaean times, and early botanists clearly recognized the topical similarities among plants bearing aments. Among the amentiferous plants placed side by side in early times were many that would not be so situated todayâe.g., gymnosperms intermixed with dicotyledons. By the time of Linnaeus, only dicotyledons were included among the ament-bearing groups. J. G. Gmelin was first to recognize ament-bearing plants (including some gymnosperms) under a single category, âAmentaceae.â Linnaeus, A. L. de Jussieu, W. J. Hooker, Lindley, and Eichler, at one time or another, placed these plants in a separate amentaceous category, but never under the term âAmentiferae.â The name was never used by Engler although he did place the ament-bearing plants among the first families of his Archichlamydeae. The category âAmentiferaeâ appears to have entered the literature in British publications and through British/English translations from the German.
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