citation of basionyms

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 07:40 AM 11-15-98 -0700, josephl at AZTEC.ASU.EDU wrote:

>I still have not received a definitive answer to the question
>I posed last week: if the requirements for valid publication
>of a plant name (diagnosis/description, type designation,
>and indication of where the type is housed) are met on
>different pages of the same book, which page is one supposed
>to cite in a recombination statement? Please do not
>answer in terms of page priority, which is a myth not
>discussed at all in the ICBN.

By example, the Code makes it clear that they are *all*  to be cited.  See,
for example, the entry in the list of conserved names (Appendix IIIA) for
the genus Canarina (p. 312), where pp. 148, 225, and 588 in Mantissa
Plantarum are cited.


Thomas G. Lammers

Classification, Nomenclature, Phylogeny and Biogeography
of the Campanulaceae, s. lat.

Department of Botany
Field Museum of Natural History
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