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ArticleTaxon2023

The challenges of classifying big genera such as

Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez, John R I Wood, Tom Wells, Tom Carruthers, Alex Sumadijaya, Robert W Scotland

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Article in Taxon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Global phylogeny and taxonomy of Artemisia.Nature communications · 2025
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  7. Twenty years of big plant genera.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Pablo Muñoz-RodríguezDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3580-8136
John R I WoodDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5102-3729
Tom WellsDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4664-7868
Tom CarruthersDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 1105 North University Ave, Biological Sciences Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1085, U.S.A.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1586-3557
Alex SumadijayaDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0360-3806
Robert W ScotlandDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-2238

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/T001445/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Big genera represent a significant proportion of the world's plants. However, comprehensive taxonomic and evolutionary studies of these genera are often complicated by their size and geographic spread. This paper explores the challenges faced in classifying these megadiverse plant groups consequent to the existing tension between diagnosability and increasing levels of resolution from molecular sequence data. We use recent examples from across angiosperms to illustrate how monophyly, diagnosability and completeness interplay with each other in attempts to classify several big genera and, specifically, the genus

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