Taxacom: botanical names with racist history

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

On 22/07/2024 12:39, Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom wrote:

... it results in the objectionable names no longer
being used as valid names, they still need to be
used as synonyms ...

No, under the ICNafp, /Erythrina caffra/ and /Erythrina affra/
(if that is indeed the new spelling) are one and the same
name. One of these occurrences is spelled wrong (a typo), and
the reader should ignore the typo. There is no possibility
of synonyms (although Wikipedia will likely get it wrong).
For synonyms it is necessary that names are separate entities,
and here there is just the one name.

Paul