Carl Linnaeus Quote

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.


Fundamenta Botanica (1736), 159. Trans. Gunnar Eriksson, 'Linnaeus the Botanist', in Tore Frängsmyr (ed.), Linnaeus: The Man and his Work (1983)


We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.