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I believe this article may have been reverted back in error. According to this article the family has now been found. The authenticity of this article should be accepted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6251517.stm
The BBC claim that Charles Davis will be publishing his findings in the journal Science. In particular I feel that the panel on the right hand side of page indicating the family should be changed. I did provide the link in the edit summary. If for any reason you feel that my arguement is not sound please let me know. Sdp1978 10:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Please find printed paper in:
Originally published in Science Express on 11 January 2007
Science 30 March 2007: Vol. 315. no. 5820, p. 1812 / DOI: 10.1126/science.1135260
Floral Gigantism in Rafflesiaceae Charles C. Davis,1* Maribeth Latvis,1 Daniel L. Nickrent,2 Kenneth J. Wurdack,3 David A. Baum4 Species of Rafflesiaceae possess the world's largest flowers (up to 1 meter in diameter), yet their precise evolutionary relationships have been elusive, hindering our understanding of the evolution of their extraordinary reproductive morphology. We present results of phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial, nuclear, and plastid data showing that Rafflesiaceae are derived from within Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family. Most euphorbs produce minute flowers, suggesting that the enormous flowers of Rafflesiaceae evolved from ancestors with tiny flowers. Given the inferred phylogeny, we estimate that there was a circa 79-fold increase in flower diameter on the stem lineage of Rafflesiaceae, making this one of the most dramatic cases of size evolution reported for eukaryotes.
1 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 2 Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, 1125 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901–6509, USA. 3 Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, NMNH MRC-166, Washington, DC 20013–7012, USA. 4 Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, 430 LincolnDrive, Madison, WI53706, USA.
Trachelipus
[1] could be used in this article. -- Cirt ( talk) 15:36, 28 April 2010 (UTC)