[Taxacom] Grass taxonomy

[Curtis Clark]

On 8/7/2012 9:42 AM, Mary Barkworth wrote:
> b) In 2005, several people strongly objected to expanding Lolium to include grasses with a panicle. The answer adopted by many was to recognize Schedonorus. It was the compromise that I went along with ni the Flora of North America.

Another approach was taken by the new Jepson manual for California: a 
large, inclusive, monophyletic Festuca, which includes Lolium, Vulpia, 
and perhaps other segregates

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