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International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) has provided a code for classification of plants. Give hierarchy of units of classification, botanists follow while classifying plants and mention different ‘suffixes’ used for the units.

ICBN hasspecified certain rules and principles is order to facilitate the study of plants by botanists. It helps in correct positioning of any newly discovered organism through proper identification and nomenclature. Given belowis the taxonomic hierarchy, which is used while classifying any plant

Kingdom  - Plantae
Division  - phyta
Class - ae
Order - ales
Family  - eae/ceae
Genus  - First name of organism usually carrying Latin word and written in italics.
Species  - Second wordofscientific name, also written in italics.

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