SNIP

All the important names of families are conserved (hundreds), so
that is nothing special.

Also Art 18.6. says "The use, as alternatives, of the family
names indicated
in parentheses in Art. 18.5 is authorized."; the primacy is
with Palmae,
with Arecaceae indicated in parentheses.

And, personally, it looks to me that Cronquist did more to
cause confusion
in plant names than APG ever did. However, keeping up is indeed
hard to do.
PvR


Oh dear! And I thought that the purpose is standardisation!

In UK, Cronquist seems to be principle system in use, with little
sign of movement towards APG.

Peter