You'd better let Kew know. Their sequencing labs are unable to identify unknowns at the generic level - and that was a lab specialising in a particular family! T > Yep. Based on current technology (and all the resources at my disposal), I > can tell you how many individual plants there are, how many populations, > how many genera, families, order...etc. I can even tell if a plant is a > hybrid, what diseases it has, what and how many taxa of microbes live on or > within it, what beneficial fungi it is associated with. I can tell you what > it's chromosome counts are, how many functional genes it has, how the > chromosomes rearranged themselves over time, how the genes rearranged > themselves over time. Then I can infer each plant's evolutionary path and > make an educated guess as to how old the species is and more and more. And > all of this is only possible because of the many years of work botanists, > ecologists, microbiologists, and evolutionary biologists have spent > gathering knowledge. We compare what we know today to what was known > yesterday. >