Flag for Taxon: hepaticas (Subgenus Hepatica)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bouteloua | hepaticas (Subgenus Hepatica) |
incompletely swapped per POWO |
Sep. 1, 2018 15:25:49 +0000 | choess |
swapped Hepatica taxa back into that genus |
Comments
I think I've found the relevant piece of literature: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5990585/
In short, the trend over the past decade or so has been to circumscribe Anemone very broadly, as the existing segregate genera like Hepatica would render it paraphyletic if recognized. More recently, taxon sampling seems to have improved enough that people are ready to split up the broad Anemone into smaller genera with better morphological division.
Hepatica has always been a recognizable entity, and apparently now it's being recognized as a genus, while its sister clade becomes Anemonastrum s.l.
It's a pretty recognizable genus and familiar to botanists of the pre-molecular-phylogeny era, so I see no problem with adopting POWO's recommendation here.
I think it is the same that is currently happening with Ranunculus, earlier described genera that have been melted in a Ranunculus s.l. like Krapfia, Kumlienia etc. are now recognized again as monophyletic and separate genera.
I think we should follow POWO with this. Genera like Pulsatilla and Hepatica are also good recognizable.
Not having heard any objections, I'm going to go ahead and commit the appropriate swaps. Happy to work on other splits from Anemone s.l. when they're worked out.
OK, everything should be swapped now. H. nobilis var. japonica may warrant species-level treatment as H. asiatica and deviation from POWO, but I'll leave that for someone else.
Plants of the World Online puts these back into Hepatica.
One taxon change has so far been committed (Anemone americana--->Hepatica americana).
Please use this flag to discuss the taxonomy of this group and any potential deviations from POWO before committing other taxon swaps.
Anemone hepatica ---> Hepatica nobilis
Anemone acutiloba ---> Hepatica acutiloba
Anemone americana ---> Hepatica americana