[Taxacom] Botanical descriptions and ICBN

[Richard Zander]

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Richard H. Zander
Missouri Botanical Garden
PO Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166 U.S.A.
richard.zander at mobot.org
 

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Adam Cotton
Sent: Thu 10/6/2011 12:30 PM
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Botanical descriptions and ICBN



----- 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.



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