[Taxacom] Who knows the Plants?

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 09:05 AM 11/2/2009, Phil Jenkins wrote:
>I work in a medium sized Herbarium (half a million all totaled), and I am
>the only one here who can identify plants. ... It is frustrating 
>sometimes, when people who
>earn more than I, have better reputations than I, come and ask what some
>relatively common plant is. It makes it hard to believe that Molecular
>Systematics is really headed down the right path.

Don't say I didn't warn you ...

Lammers, T. G., Plant systematics today: all our eggs in one 
basket?  Systematic Botany 24: 494-496 (1999).


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Curator of the Neil A. Harriman Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
800 Algoma Blvd.
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and 
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.

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