[Taxacom] Picobiliphyta?

[Thomas Lammers]

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From: "James L. Reveal" <jreveal at umd.edu>

> And on the specific case of "Polypodiophyta instead of  Pteridophyta" allow  me to remind you that Pteridophyta Schimp. in Schenk, Handb. Palaeont., Palaeophyt.: 1. 1879, based on Pteris L.<

Shows what I know.  I assumed that name was a descriptive one (descpite being aware of the generic names Pteris and Pteridium). 

> Of course, priority is not operative at suprafamilial ranks and 
> one can use 
> either of the above. What should be avoided is a name like 
> Filicophyta which 
> was based on a generic name, Filix Adans. (1763), that is now 
> both rejected 
> and a later homonym (non Seguier, 1754).

Agreed.

Tom Lammers