apomictic microspecies

[Ken Kinman]

      While on the subject of Hieracium, don't some botanists consider many
apomictic microspecies as infraspecific (like subspecies).  If you regard
them all as separate species, isn't this an extreme form of the phylogenetic
species concept?
      And if we studied other "clonal" organisms (like bryozoans) as
intensely, would we also find genera with hundreds or thousands of such
microspecies?
        ---- Just curious,
                    Ken Kinman

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