Explain Endlicher's phylogenetic classification system.
My classification system was an attempt to arrange plants in a manner that reflected their natural relationships, moving towards what we might now call a phylogenetic order. I believed that the arrangement of plant orders should be based on their fundamental structure and reproductive organs, creating a hierarchy that indicated their evolutionary connections. This was a departure from previous systems that relied on superficial or single-character distinctions.
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