PhyloCode names

[Finn N. Rasmussen]

I think we really need some kind of rules for coining clade names, and such
names have to be rankless, i.e. there cannot be hierarchical information
built into the form of the name. But I also think that Tom Lammers has a
good point in suggesting that clade names should have a form making them
easily distinguishable from traditional "Linnean" names (which haven't got
very much to do with Linnaeus). Note that names of cultivars cannot be
latin-like words. The "L" and "P" recommended in art. 6 of the P-code may
not be enough to avoid confusion, and they are difficult to handle in
speech.

Why not decide that clade names should be English plural forms of some
descriptive word, like "Tricolpates" for the Eudicots - or a phrase based on
a word in Sanskrit or another distinguished fossil language. Or we might
agree on a set of suffixes, one of which should always be used in clade
names under the PyloCode.

Finn N Rasmussen, Copenhagen