Editing Oleaceae (section)

== History ==
[[Carl Linnaeus]] named eight of the genera of Oleaceae in 1753 in his [[Species Plantarum]].<ref>Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné). 1753. ''Species Plantarum'', 1st edition, vol. 1, [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84235#page/22/mode/1up pages 6-9]. Holmiae: Impensis Laurentii Salvii (Lars Salvius). (A facsimile with an introduction by William T. Stearn was published by the Ray Society in 1957).</ref> He did not designate what we now know as plant families, but placed his genera in artificial groups for purposes of identification. After the work of Linnaeus, names for groups that included the genera of Oleaceae were used, but none of them was a [[valid publication]] of the family name Oleaceae. For example, [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu]], in his ''[[Genera Plantarum (Jussieu)|Genera Plantarum]]'' in 1789, placed them in an order which he called "Jasmineae".<ref>Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. 1789. "[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7125#page/199/mode/1up ORDO IV Jasmineae]" pages 104-106. In: ''Genera plantarum :secundum ordines naturales disposita, ...''.</ref> In 1809, in a flora of Portugal, [[Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg]] and [[Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link|Johann H.F. Link]] described at the taxonomic rank of family a group which they called "Oleinae".<ref>[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=30001336-2 Oleaceae] in International Plant Names Index.</ref><ref>Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg and Johann H.F. Link. 1809. ''Flore Portugaise ou description de toutes des plantes ... 1:62.</ref> Their description is now regarded as the establishment of what we now know as Oleaceae.<ref name="reveal2008on">James L. Reveal. 2008 onward. "[http://www.plantsystematics.org/reveal/pbio/fam/famOA-OZ.html A Checklist of Family and Suprafamilial Names for Extant Vascular Plants]." At: Home page of James L. Reveal and C. Rose Broome.</ref>

The last revision of Oleaceae was published in 2004 in a series entitled ''[[Kubitzki system|The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants]]''. Since that time, molecular phylogenetic work has shown that the next revision of Oleaceae must include substantial changes to the [[Circumscription (taxonomy)|circumscription]] of genera.