Australian National Herbarium

Is it on the list? Taxonomy, conservation, and a mountaintop orchid

A tension exists between taxonomy and conservation in their conceptualisation of species and genera: in taxonomy, a species, a genus, or any other taxonomic grouping is a hypothesis; while in threatened species listing, a species or genus is a fixed entity. This case study of the...

Large‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG V

Abstract We present here a revision of the APG classification that considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of the APG classification were largely based on uniparentally inherited mark...