"wouldn't you all prefer an orchidaceous taxonomy flamewar?" Yeah, but at least all the hurtful words thrown around in the religious/political flamewar were small ones. It's hard to get all worked up when ya gotta pull the dictionary out just to formulate a good comeback. ;-)
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:36:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would expect that smaller genera would create more problems regarding > monophyly. If the relationship between Sophronitis cernua and Sophronitis > coccinea is reassessed as a result of the new plastid DNA sequence, then the > large genus Sophronitis (van den Berg) would remain monophyletic, but the > smaller genus Hadrolaelia (Chiron and Castro Neto) would become polyphyletic. > > regards, > Nick -- www.pollenatrix.com "Botanical discipline, daily." _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
