Yes, for better and (in rare cases) for worse, APG is now the broadly acknowledged authority for the recognition of angiosperm orders and families. One can question the artistic judgement involved in some decisions (e.g., whether the odd Australian Dasypogonaceae should be lumped into the same order as palms), but for most systematic issues at the family and ordinal levels, APG has made a lot of very good calls and has worked - importantly - to stabilize nomenclature at those levels just when the avalanche of new molecular data is necessitating the greatest changes from traditional systems based ± entirely on morphology.
Cheers, Tom Thomas J. Givnish Henry Allan Gleason Professor of Botany University of Wisconsin-Madison givn...@wisc.edu ________________________________ From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> on behalf of David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 8:03 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Is the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiosperm_Phylogeny_Group> generally considered the authority on issues related to plant taxonomy? For example whether the Araceae are part of the Alismatales or the Arales? Or whether the genus Trillium is in Liliaceae or Melanthiaceae? I've often used plants.usda.gov for taxonomic issues, but see that they don't use some of the APG classifications. -- Dr. David W. Inouye Professor Emeritus Department of Biology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4415 ino...@umd.edu<mailto:ino...@umd.edu> Principal Investigator Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory PO Box 519 Crested Butte, CO 81224
