Is there such an abbreviation??

[Thomas Lammers]

At 08:34 AM 9/29/00 -0600, you wrote:
>The reason I am trying to find such an abbrev. deals directly with the seed
>industries in the united states. When moving seed back anf forth across
>the borders random samples of the lot are tested for certain noxious weed
>seeds. They would like to excude certain species which were in the past
>once of the same genera.

 From a practical perspective, for someone in government service, I would
recommend you follow the classifications and circumscriptions embodied in
USDA/ARS Technical Bulletin 1796, "Families and Genera of Spermatophytes
Recognized by the Agricultural Research Service" by C. R. Gunn et al. (1992).

Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
phone:      920-424-7085
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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