The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated on a publicly available flower classification database with promising results.
In addition, we use a genetic algorithm to find the most discriminative attributes among others for better performance during the stage of flower classification.
Previously published flowering and fruiting phenological classifications were based on the description of the phenology of a limited number of species, and they did not encompass the vast array of reproductive strategies displayed by tropical plants [28] [31].
In the response-dependent analysis of RT, an ANOVA with between factors Anxiety and Relevance and repeated measures factor Classification (spider, flower, neither/nor) was calculated.
Furthermore, P1 amplitude was influenced by the ambiguousness of stimuli: in the stimulus-dependent analysis more ambiguous pictures led to larger P1 amplitudes than more unequivocal pictures; correspondingly, larger P1 amplitudes were observed for neither/nor classifications than for flower or spider classifications in the response-dependent analysis.
Classification for flowers is a very difficult task.
Cronquist, A. The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants, 1 396 (Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 1968).
Only the Apodanthaceae and the likewise holoparasitic Cynomoriaceae have not yet been placed with confidence, and the Apodanthaceae are also the only unplaced family-level clade in the latest classification of flowering plants [ 1, 11].
Furthermore, although considerable progress has been made towards the molecular systematics of many parasitic plants [ 5, 7- 12], several parasites have obscure positions within angiosperm phylogeny, accounting for 7 of 18 unplaced taxa in the recent molecularly-based ordinal classification of flowering plants [ 13].
It was one member in a larger group, the order Bennettitales (known as the order Cycadeoidales in some classifications), which has been evolutionarily linked to angiosperms (flowering plants).
