[Taxacom] Polygonum cespitosum or P. caespitosum?

[Thomas Lammers]

Ah!  So IPNI *does* need a minor fix in this case!

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul van Rijckevorsel <dipteryx at freeler.nl>
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:24 am
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Polygonum cespitosum or P. caespitosum?
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

> From: "Dilrukshan Wijesinghe" <dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com>
> To: "Taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> 
> > A quick question: What is the correct spelling of the specific 
> epithet 
> > of the so-called Oriental Lady' s Thumb or Cespitose Smartweed:
> > cespitosum or caespitosum? It appears as cespitosum in Gleason 
> > & Cronquist's Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United 
> > States and Adjacent Canada, 2nd ed. 1991 (11th printing 2009, 
> > p. 137) and in the USDA PLANTS Database 
> > (http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=POCE4)
> > but as caespitosum in several popular recent publications
> > (e.g. Del Tredici, 2010, Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast, 
> p. 260).
> 
> ***
> Looks like a classic case of (not) correcting spelling:
> 
> http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?400114
> Polygonum cespitosum Blume (Bijdr. 11: 532. 1826)
> 
> http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9224#253
> Clearly, /cespitosum/ is the original spelling. From the 
> perspective 
> of Latin usage, it would have been preferable if caespitosum 
> had been used originally, but it wasn't. The correct spelling is
> cespitosum (see Art. 60, Ex. 1, last line).
> 
> Paul
> 
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 Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

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Department of Biology and Microbiology
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