[Taxacom] Botanical descriptions and ICBN

[Paul Kirk]

validity depends on one diagnosis (or description) in Latin (or from 1-1-2012) or English ... and any number of others in any number of languages. The 'one' makes the name valid (available, in ICZN speak) unless it is challenged as not diagnostic (very rare). The application of the name is determined by the type; the diagnosis in this repect is not that important since the diagnostic characters included are essentially taxonomic opinion and outside the scope of nomenclature :-)

with less haste,

Paul

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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Botanical descriptions and ICBN

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To: "Adolf Ceska" <aceska at telus.net>; <brpatric at dwu.edu>;
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> 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.



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