Three new vascular plant families

[Una Smith]

Mary Barkworth wrote:

>I was told over the weekend that three new vascular plant families have
>been described recently - within the last 10 years was my impression -

Mary,

One is Setchellanthaceae, based on a new capparid angiosperm genus,
described in a series of papers in TAXON in 1999.

A search of BIOSIS should produce the rest.  BIOSIS codes include one
for new families.

        Una Smith

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mailstop K-710, Los Alamos, NM  87545