Talk:Cyclobalanopsis

Latest comment: 16 years ago by Krasanen in topic Cyclobalanopsis to Quercus

Cyclobalanopsis to Quercus

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It is ONLY the Flora of China that treats Cyclobalanopsis as a genus. Almost all botanists incl. the ones responsible for the genus Quercus consider it a subgenus. In my opinion Wikipedia should follow the currently most common opinion and add Cyclobalanopsis as a subgenus of Quercus.

I agree. For example, Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/APweb/welcome.html) and all the taxonomy databases (like http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/ and http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl) either don't know Cyclobalanopsis or consider it a synonym of Quercus. Krasanen (talk) 18:30, 5 April 2008 (UTC)Reply