Taxacom: botanical names with racist history

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

On 22/07/2024 20:44, Stephen Thorpe wrote:

[…] The old name won’t just update by magic in the past literature.
[...]


Well, the original spelling (not the old name) already has been updated
everywhere (or it will have been in the future, after the new Rule goes
into effect).  Of course, the “Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic” will apply here.

The ‘botanical’ /Code/has been working this way for decades. Just a
matter ofappreciating the miracles of retroactivity.

Paul