describing new spp in tabular form

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 03:15 PM 01-02-98 GMT, Donald Quicke wrote:

>Although, I'm an entomologist, I'd be equally intersted to know if a
>tabular form of description was allowable in botanical nomenclature, albeit
>with Latin diagnoses appended.

Though unconventional, I don't know why you couldn't provide a table in
Latin as a means of complying with provisions of the Bot Code for valid
publication.


Thomas G. Lammers

Classification, Nomenclature, Phylogeny and Biogeography
of the Campanulaceae, s. lat.

Department of Botany
Field Museum of Natural History
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