Botanical Nomenclature

[Thomas Lammers]

Art. 36.1 of the ICBN exempts fossil taxa from the Latin requirement.  The
description or diagnosis may be in any language.

At 08:36 PM 5/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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

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

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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and biogeography
of the Campanulaceae s. lat.

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