The information presented here does not reflect the bizarre treatment of conserved family listed in App. II in the new funeral-black edition of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Greuter, et al., Regnum Veg. 138). I have asked the Committee of Spermatophyta to review the curious decisions reached by the Editorial Committee for the Code believing that their treatment of numerous names will be found not to be supported by provisions in the Code.
