[Taxacom] Ken Hill's work

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Van: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu namens Karen Wilson
Verzonden: vr 6-8-2010 15:46

> You're quite right, Paul, that I should have mentioned Ken's work
> on conifers, including the famed Wollemia! 

> I guess that my thinking automatically focuses more on the eucalypts, 
> which are foremost in nearly all Australians' thinking because 
> they are such a big group and in just about every habitat in Australia. 
> Ken was an author for the names of about 300 of the >800 species of
> eucalypt, mostly jointly with Lawrie Johnson. 

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Yes, I see, lately I have not been following Eucalypts, but at the time
I looked at all the wood anatomical papers by Dadswell & al. on the topic, 
which were exemplary studies. However, these happened a long time ago, 
and relatively little has been published on their wood anatomy since. 
As Dadswell & al. already described the dichotomy, I was happy enough 
with the splitting-off of Corymbia, which otherwise appeared to be 
making sense as well, and reduced the uncomfortably large genus. 
However, I understand that the decision to split Eucalyptus proved to be
'less than universally popular', which in retrospect makes the 
Corymbia-paper a rather courageous act.

Paul