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Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

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An Updated Phylogenetic Classification Of The Flowering Plants, Robert F. Thorne Jan 1992

An Updated Phylogenetic Classification Of The Flowering Plants, Robert F. Thorne

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

This update of my classification of the flowering plants, or Angiospermae, is based upon about 800 pertinent books, monographs, and other botanical papers published since my last synopsis appeared in the Nordic Journal of Science in 1983. Also I have narrowed my family- and ordinal-gap concepts to bring acceptance of family and ordinal limits more in line with those of current taxonomists. This new information and the shift in my phylogenetic philosophy have caused significant changes in my interpretation of relationships and numbers and content of taxa. Also the ending "-anae" has been accepted for superorders in place in the …