Use of the rank of forma

[Curtis Clark]

At 06:55 PM 10/1/00, Susan B. Farmer wrote:
>IPNI is eliminating everything between the specific epithet and the
>forma.  If the above were a validly published name, they would list
>it in their database as Planta excelsa forma alba -- regardless of how
>it was published.

And this is supposedly a *good* thing?

How do they distinguish between the formae alba in different subspecies?


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