Talk:Fagaceae

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[edit] Cyclobalanopsis to Quercus

Somebody has written to Talk:Cyclobalanopsis:

"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 on this. For example, Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/APweb/welcome.html) and any of 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) do not support the genus Cyclobalanopsis. And my understanding is that Cyclobalanopsis is treated as subgenus also in Japan. Krasanen (talk) 17:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)