Botanical Nomenclature

[John McNeill]

While it is true that Art. 36.1 exempts names of new fossil tax from the Latin requirement, this does not mean that the description or diagnosis can be in any language.  Art 36.3 provides that on or after 1 Jan. 1996, it must be in Latin or English.

"36.3.  In order to be validly published, a name of a new taxon of fossil plants published on or after 1 January 1996 must be accompanied by a Latin or English description or diagnosis or by a reference to a previously and effectively published Latin or English description or diagnosis. "

John McNeill, 
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>>> Thomas Lammers <lammers at VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU> 05/21/02 08:43 AM >>>
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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