Talk:Malvales

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See lengthy discussion under Talk:Malvaceae with regard to Malvaceae s.l. vs. Tiliaceae, Bombacaceae, and Sterculiaceae. MrDarwin 14:54, 22 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 16:25, 30 November 2007 (UTC)