Talk:Saxifragales

Defining
What actually defines the Saxifragales, what unique characteristics do they have? 95jb14 (talk) 11:39, 20 September 2009 (UTC)


 * What the article now says is: "Saxifragales, as it is now understood, is based upon the results of molecular phylogenetic studies of DNA sequences. It is not part of any of the classification systems based on plant morphology. The group is much in need of comparative anatomical study". I didn't find anything to the contrary in a (relatively quick) look at papers such as the APGII paper. There is a short discussion on page 518 of and although they have a few hints of similarities in morphology, biochemistry, etc, it is probably too tentative for us (unless something more conclusive has been found since, which is possible since this paper is 12 years old). Kingdon (talk) 01:46, 29 September 2009 (UTC)