Hennig XVIII

[Curtis Clark]

At 11:30 PM 5/12/99 -0500, Tom DiBenedetto wrote:
>Would the Rosa fans be content with the title "prophet" rather than
>"founder"?

Let's not forget Herb Wagner and "groundplan-divergence". He and others
have claimed in recent decades that it was explicitly cladistic, and it
certainly affected North American botanists, perhaps to the point that more
of them were receptive to Hennig's views.


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