[Taxacom] Order Campanulales (worth maintaining?)

[Jim Croft]

Preference? So, Angiosperm phylogeny is a popularity contest now?

What ever happened to that quaint archaic notion of evidence as a
trigger for change?

jim

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Kenneth Kinman <kennethkinman at webtv.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>      Since I haven't updated my angiosperm classification in almost 2
> years, I was looking at some possible changes, especially some minor
> coding changes.
>       However, in the process, I also began to wonder about whether to
> continue separating Order Campanulales from Order Asterales (which were
> merged in APG II).  Although Order Campanulales may now only include two
> families (Campanulaceae and Rousseaceae), it is still rather speciose.
>     Anyway, I have no strong inclination one way or the other in this
> case.  So I wonder if any taxacomers have any preferences one way or the
> other?  Lump Order Campanulales into Asterales, or keep them as separate
> sister Orders?
>            --------Cheers,
>                            Ken Kinman
>
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