[Taxacom] Rankless classifications
Curtis Clark
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Tue Mar 17 22:50:16 CDT 2009
On 2009-03-17 18:57, Kenneth Kinman wrote:
> And how about the cactus example. Search for Cactales at NCBI and
> you get NO RESULTS.
No one with any experience in flowering plant taxonomy ever searches for
orders, because they are so labile. They were even labile 37 years ago,
when I was first taught that they can safely be ignored, in favor of
families.
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