Use of the rank of forma

[Curtis Clark]

At 03:44 PM 10/1/00, Jacques Melot wrote:
>    De plus, la suppression du rang de forme serait peu compatible -
>dans l'esprit et a la lettre - avec l'art. 4.3:
>
>4.3. Further ranks may also be intercalated or added, provided that
>confusion or error is not thereby introduced.

And of course once used, ranks never go away. I have seen names of the form
Planta excelsa subsp. septentrionalis var. virgata f. alba - any plan to
deal with orphaned names if a rank were to be "eliminated" would be more
trouble than it was worth.


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