I felt very honoured when, in March 2006, I was asked by Alfonso Susanna if I could present an overview of the phylogeny of Asterales for The International Compositae Alliance TICA meeting in Barcelona later the same year. Of course my first — and probably wisest — reaction was to say Thank you very much [...]
So, finally, the Winkworth, Lundberg and Donoghue paper is public! The title is the exciting “Toward a resolution of Campanulid phylogeny, with special reference to the placement of Dipsacales” and it is published in the latest issue of Taxon. The abstract reads as follow: “Broad-scale phylogenetic analyses of the angiosperms and of the Asteridae have failed to confidently resolve [...]