The phylogenetic position of taxaceae ba
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Shu-Miaw Chaw; Huei Long; Bin-Shin Wang; Andrey Zharkikh; Wen-Hsiung Lie
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Article
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1993
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Springer
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English
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The evolutionary position of the yew family, Taxaceae, has been very controversial. Some plant taxonomists strongly advocate excluding Taxaceae from the conifer order and raising its taxonomic status to a new order or even class because of its absence of seed cones, contrary to the case in the major