[Taxacom] Euphorbiales/Malpighiales

[Robin Leech]

Mario,
I do not believe that names above the family level have a
published date for priority.  I believe it is usage, and who is
the present specialist using this or that ordinal name, that
sets the standards for use.
Robin Leech

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mario Blanco" <mblanco at flmnh.ufl.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Euphorbiales/Malpighiales


>
> 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/
>>
>
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