Eugenia - Syzygium

[C.Srinivasa Rao]

Dear colleagues,

The Asian Eugenia genus was renamed as Syzygium. Does
anybody know the reason or references there of, for
this change in nomenclature? Is this based on the
morphological parameters/molecular data/chemotaxonomy
studies?

Regards

Srinivas





--- Thomas Schlemmermeyer <termites at USP.BR> wrote:
> Hello, the purpose of this message is to make
> reference once more to the
> previous messages about Hennig, Rosa, and Croizat.
> This makes sense also in
> face of the upcoming congress of the Hennig society.
>
> While the contribution of Hennig to systematic
> theory may be circumscribed by
> the key-words "synapomorphy" and "paraphyly" (in the
> sense that the perception
> of synapomorphies leads to the rejection of many
> groups because they are
> paraphyletic), I wonder what key-words one shall
> attribute to Rosa and Croizat.
>
> I have no idea about Rosa (never read), but I do
> know that Croizat may enter
> history via the idea that biota and earth evolve
> together, centers of origin
> are substituted by wide spread ancestral
> distributions.
> In contrast to Hennig, Croizat?s endevours dealt in
> first place with the
> organism?s distributions and not with the organisms
> themselves.
>
> As I mentioned, about Rosa I don?t know anything.
>
>      Cheers,   Thomas
>

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Chaluvadi Srinivasa Rao
M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation
III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area,
Chennai - 600113  India

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