[Taxacom] Capparidaceae [was Correcting higher taxon terminations in botany ( a question of stems)]

[dipteryx at freeler.nl]

I have looked it up; this change was explained by

   “Very few names are presented in a form different 
     from common usage; the subcommittee could not 
     avoid introducing these names, since Art. 18 of the 
     Code prescribes that a name of a family is formed 
     by adding the suffix -aceae to the stem of a legitimate 
     name of an included genus; thus Balanopaceae (instead 
     of Balanopsidaceae), Bataceae (instead of Batidaceae) 
     and, Capparaceae (instead of Capparidaceae) ...”

(Report of the Subcommittee for Family Names of the
Committee for Spermatophyta, Regnum Veg. 44: 64. 1966)

This explains the changed spelling as required by the then
Art. 18, formed from the “stem” of the generic name. This
concept of a “stem of the generic name” was abandoned in
the 1988, Berlin Code, as being ambiguous.

Since conservation exists for the purpose of protecting
names from rules which would result in disrupting
nomenclatural reality, the subcommittee seems to have
have failed in its basic mission as concerns 
Balanopsidaceae, Batidaceae, and Capparidaceae.

Haloragaceae is a different matter: the initial report by
Bullock (Taxon, 8: 175. 1959) states: There seems to be 
no justification for the form "Haloragidaceae", so this was
never in the running.

Paul

> Op 26-07-2021 09:00 schreef dipteryx--- via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>:
> 
>  
> I am not sure about the reason, but I do know that
> some people were very upset about this. A minor
> scandal at the time.
> 
> Paul
> 
> > Op 26-07-2021 07:33 schreef Michael Heads via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>:
> > 
> >  
> > To form the family name in botany, the 'stem' of the noun (i.e. the
> > genitive form of the noun without the inflected ending) is used (whether
> > Latin or Greek), and 'aceae' is added (Article 18:1). Thelypteridaceae,
> > Iridaceae, Orchidaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Oxalidaceae etc. (Greek stems) all
> > follow the rule, likewise Plumbaginaceae (not Plumbagaceae) (the stem in
> > this case is Latin).
> >   The old names Capparidaceae and Haloragidaceae followed the rule. But the
> > new, shortened names, Capparaceae and Haloragaceae, have been conserved for
> > some reason. Does anyone know why?. .
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 10:17 AM Tony Rees via Taxacom <
> > taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Paul Kirk wrote:
> > >
> > > > Scleroderma is not a plant ...
> > >
> > > Point taken, but the same rules apply...
> > > BTW, is Mycology a part of Botany these days? Or maybe, Botany does not
> > > exist... in my alma mater, it became "Plant Sciences" over the time that I
> > > was there. Probably (almost certainly) something else now ("evolutionary
> > > biology" or similar) :)
> > >
> > > - Tony
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Paul Kirk
> > > > Sent: 25 July 2021 22:39
> > > > To: Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com>
> > > > Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Correcting higher taxon terminations in botany ( a
> > > > question of stems)
> > > >
> > > > Scleroderma is not a plant ...
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> > > > (Mycologist)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Taxacom Mailing List
> > >
> > > Send Taxacom mailing list submissions to: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > > For list information; to subscribe or unsubscribe, visit:
> > > http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
> > > You can reach the person managing the list at:
> > > taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > > The Taxacom email archive back to 1992 can be searched at:
> > > http://taxacom.markmail.org
> > >
> > > Nurturing nuance while assailing ambiguity for about 34 years, 1987-2021.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dunedin, New Zealand.
> > 
> > My books:
> > 
> > *Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand. *Taylor and Francis/CRC, Boca
> > Raton FL. 2017.
> > https://www.routledge.com/Biogeography-and-Evolution-in-New-Zealand/Heads/p/book/9781498751872
> > 
> > 
> > *Biogeography of Australasia:  A molecular analysis*. Cambridge University
> > Press, Cambridge. 2014. www.cambridge.org/9781107041028
> > 
> > 
> > *Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. *University of California Press,
> > Berkeley. 2012. www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271968
> > 
> > 
> > *Panbiogeography: Tracking the history of life*. Oxford University Press,
> > New York. 1999. (With R. Craw and J. Grehan).
> > http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC
> > <http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC&dq=panbiogeography&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Taxacom Mailing List
> > 
> > Send Taxacom mailing list submissions to: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > For list information; to subscribe or unsubscribe, visit: http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
> > You can reach the person managing the list at: taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > The Taxacom email archive back to 1992 can be searched at: http://taxacom.markmail.org
> > 
> > Nurturing nuance while assailing ambiguity for about 34 years, 1987-2021.
> _______________________________________________
> Taxacom Mailing List
> 
> Send Taxacom mailing list submissions to: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> For list information; to subscribe or unsubscribe, visit: http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
> You can reach the person managing the list at: taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> The Taxacom email archive back to 1992 can be searched at: http://taxacom.markmail.org
> 
> Nurturing nuance while assailing ambiguity for about 34 years, 1987-2021.