Ray, who listed over 18,000 plant species in his works, is credited with establishing the monocot/dicot division and some of his groups — mustards, mints, legumes and grasses — stand today (though under modern family names).
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Later influential Renaissance books include those of Caspar Bauhin and Andrea Cesalpino.
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In the 1990s DNA technology saw immense progress, resulting in unprecedented accumulation of DNA sequence data from various genes present in compartments of plant cells.
The systematic position of Platycarpha has long been regarded with uncertainty.
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In older systems of classification, it was placed in Sterculiaceae, but all members of that family are now in an expanded Malvaceae.