Botanical Nomenclature

[Robin Leech]

Date of publication is the date of issue of the PRINTED article.
Nothing else counts.  Read ICBN Tokyo Code, 1994, Article 29.1.
There is a negative impact, and, there is no legitimacy.
There would be no point for Kew Index to deal with the names
if the names were invalidly distributed on the net.

Suppose you put a series of genus/species name combinations
(Xus yus, X.zedus, X.quus, etc.) onto the net to show what
your intentions are.
In the meantime, someone else has a paper just submitted
for publication, or is in press, or comes out as published
the same day you put your stuff on the net.
All of your identical name combinations are worthless and
meaningless.
I believe that you cannot cite new taxa names even when
the article is in press.  You can cite the information, number of
species, etc., as (Blow, in press).  You cannot cite for certain
a year of publication for an in press paper
I think it is all pretty cut and dried.

Robin Leech

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beach, James H" <beach at KU.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 7:36 PM
Subject: Botanical Nomenclature


> Hi --
>
> Code warriors help!
>
> The recent article in Science "Archaefructaceae, a New Basal Angiosperm
> Family" by Ge Sun, Qiang Ji, David L. Dilcher, Shaolin Zheng, Kevin C.
> Nixon, and Xinfu Wang, and the earlier article last fall on the same
subject
> did not include latin diagnoses for either of the two species or for the
> family.
>
> Are Latin diagnoses no longer required by the botanical code?
>
> also
>
> Would a code guru kindly explain if it makes any difference to the
> legitimacy of the taxa if the articles appear on the net in Science Online
> before they are distributed in print? I would assume there is no negative
> impact, which date is used formally?
>
> Does anyone know if any of the indexes like the Kew Index or Gray Index or
> IPNI have captured in their databases any taxa that have only been
described
> online?  Even as entries describing them as invalid?
>
> I recall that Barry Hammel at MoBot published a new variety I believe in
his
> web newsletter 'Leaps and Bounds' a copule of years ago, I wonder if any
> index or database picked up on it, - sorry I cannot find the name of it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Beach
> Univ. of Kansas
> Lawrence, Kansas