autonymic heirarchy

[Susan Farmer]

>>priority, which one has priority? For example, suppose I publish the name
>>Planta hypothetica var. alba in 1997. This automatically causes the
>>creation of the variety Planta hypothetica var. hypothetica. Suppose in
>>1998 someone desides that the entire species should be considered a
>>variety of Planta rubra. Does this become Planta rubra var. hypothetica
>>or Planta rubra var. alba?
>>
>
>My understanding is that it becomes Planta rubra var. hypothetica because it
>was explicitly named.  var. alba came into being "autonymically."  My
>understnading that when an autonym is created in this fashion, that
>autonymic names of all intermediate ranks are also created.
>

*sigh*  Shows what I get for trying to thing "early" in the morning --
and without my copy of the code handy.  Correct andwer -- wrong reason.

*sigh*

Maybe after my eyes uncross from verifying all the data for the Thesis ...

Susan