Cultigen
A cultigen refers to a type of plants that are selected or altered by humans and are often use for commerce or in applications of agriculture, forestry and agriculture. Plants that do not fall under the Linnaean hierarchical classification falls under cultigen. Man made plants or what is techinically referred to as anthropogenic plants are classified accoridingly into what is called Cultigens Group of Cultivar-group.
Cultigen plants are often a result of plant breeding, selection of wild variants or abberant growth. Genetically modified agricultural plants also falls under this category. Graft-chimaeras is also one example of cultigen where tissues of different plants are mixed together to produce hybrid plants. The full list of cultigen plants are indicated in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. Most cultigens are grown in the wildlife and are cross breed without intention by over the course of time, with or without human intervention.
