was the first botanical work to consistently apply the binomial nomenclature system of naming to any large group of organisms (Linnaeus' tenth edition of would apply the same technique to animals for the first time in 1758).
Because it is the first work in which binomial nomenclature was consistently applied, was chosen as the "starting point" for the nomenclature of most plants (the nomenclature of some non-vascular plants and all fungi uses later starting points) [REF].