目前,中草药的整理研究工作正向着不断深入提高的方向发展,在这个过程中,我们深切地感到这方面的工作十分需要有正确的思维方法和基础理论来加以指导。植物系统发育和分类概念中草药绝大部分来源于植物,而目前世界上数十万种植物都是经过了漫长的历史时期而逐渐演化来的。在演化的过程中,它们之间形成了或远或近的亲缘关系,这就是植物的系统发育概念。亲缘相近的种,不但在外形上相似,而 At present, the research and development of Chinese herbal medicines are progressing in a direction of continuous improvement. In this process, we deeply feel that this work requires a correct way of thinking and basic theory to guide them. Plant phylogeny and taxonomy Concepts The vast majority of Chinese herbal medicines are derived from plants. At present, hundreds of thousands of plants in the world have evolved over a long historical period. In the process of evolution, they have formed a distant or close relationship, which is the phylogenetic concept of plants. Similar species, not only similar in appearance, but