Taxonomic Merge 4591 (Committed on 2013-04-30)

The 2013 Catalog of Life release includes some major changes to higher plant taxonomy. One of these is to merge the three phyla for mosses, liverworts, and hornworts into a single phylum. Because there is now no taxon for liverworts & hornworts, taxa identified as such are moved down the tree to the broader concept of Bryophyta. Hopefully they can be moved back up the tree by identifying them to class, as these ranks remain unchanged in the 2013 release.

Catalogue of Life: 2013 Annual Checklist (Citation)
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Added by loarie on April 30, 2013 04:22 PM | Committed by loarie on April 30, 2013
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