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The origin of the Fagaceous cupule

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A review of methods used in the taxonomy of the Fagaceae is presented, with a critical focus made on the nomenclature of extant and fossil taxa, notablyNothofagus. The most recent classifications of the family and the problems of character weighting are considered, and an argument is made to reduce the subfamilies to tribes. The origin of the cupule is then discussed. Interpretations of the cupule as a series of reduced dichasial axes are criticized for their essentialistic approach, lack of evolutionary evidence and failure of application to the family as a whole. With the postulating of an ancestral form, the origin of the cupule involving a combination of characters from an outer tripartite perianth whorl and the pericarp is proposed. The theory provides for the evolution of the thin-walled dry pericarp and all the cupule forms found in the family today.

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Jenkins, R. The origin of the Fagaceous cupule. Bot. Rev 59, 81–111 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02856675

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