Talk:Bombacaceae

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With regard to Bombacaceae vs. Malvaceae, see lengthy discussion under Talk:Malvaceae. MrDarwin 14:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Alas, as with the Malvaceae and Sterculiaceae articles, Berton seems more concerned with staking out personal property than accepting critiques, edits, and improvements from other editors. Rather than add to, or comment on, my edits he simply deleted them, even though I provided additional, and accurate, factual information. MrDarwin 15:32, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Addendum

As a rather late addendum to the circumscription issues, I just got a copy of the new "Flowering Plant Families of the World" by Heywood et al. They maintain Malvaceae in a strict sense, but only by splitting the "core Malvales" rather finely into a series of smaller and narrowly defined families (Bombacaceae, Byttneriaceae, Brownlowiaceae, Durionaceae, Helicteraceae, Malvaceae, Pentapetaceae, Sparrmanniaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Tiliaceae); while the "traditional" core Malvalean families are recognized, they are defined by Heywood et al. much more narrowly than in traditional classifications. MrDarwin 16:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC)