[Taxacom] Euphorbiales/Malpighiales

[Mario Blanco]

Probably because they use a recircumscribed order Malpighiales Jussieu
(published in 1835). But you have a point; Euphorbiales Lindley was
published earlier, in 1833, so Euphorbiales should have priority.

There is a short note on priority of family names in the APG II paper
(2003. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 141, note on pages 415-416), but there is no
mention of how they dealt with names of higher level taxa. They might
have simply overlooked the name Euphorbiales. Or there could be some
other explanation.

-Mario

michael.heads at yahoo.com wrote:
>  Dear Colleagues,
>
>  Why do some authors call the large order including Euphorbia
>  'Malpighiales' instead of Euphorbiales, when Euphorbiaceae occur just
>  about everywhere and Malpighiaceae are much less common?
>
>  Michael Heads
>
>  Wellington, New Zealand.
>
>  My papers on biogeography are at the Buffalo Museum website:
> 
www.sciencebuff.org/research/current-research-activities/john-grehan/evolutionary-biography/panbiogeographic-publications/heads-publications/
>