“The greater impact of trees was in taxonomy, as visual representations of abstract concepts” According to Lima, these tree illustrations supported “combinatorial invention and creativity”.

Podostemaceae Taxonomy and Phylogeny Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Podostemaceae Taxonomy and Phylogeny.

Taxonomists continued for another century to explore the world and discover new species as before, now drawing tree diagrams to represent the relationships between organisms and their evolution.