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A scientist has come across a plant which he feels is a new species. How will he go about its identification, classification and nomenclature.

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Taxonomic aids can easily identify species and classify them which is very useful in agriculture, forestry and in various industries. Newly discovered plant can be identified with the help of herbaria, monographs and preserved plant specimen. The scientist has to study morphological characters of the plants, plant parts, compare the characteristic features with similar information availability in the scientific literature. After that he can name it according to the rules of binomial nomenclature and fix its systematic position.

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