[Taxacom] Botanical descriptions and ICBN

[Adam Cotton]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Kirk" <p.kirk at cabi.org>
To: "Adolf Ceska" <aceska at telus.net>; <brpatric at dwu.edu>; 
<taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Botanical descriptions and ICBN


> it's Latin or English ... not Latin and/or English ... there was never an 
> 'and/or' ... the full reports and the new wording are in the official 
> reports in Taxon and about 15 other journals including MycoKeys. The 
> 'Code' is now the NC (International Code for the Nomenclature of algae, 
> fungi and plants) - not the ICBN.
>
> In haste,
>
> Paul
>
>

As a zoologist looking in from outside, so to speak, I am curious to know if 
a plant were to be described in both Latin and English would the name be 
unavailable due to 'and' rather than 'or'?

Is there a clause giving priority to one language over another in such as 
case?

Adam.