[Taxacom] Botanical descriptions and ICBN

[Jan Bosselaers]

Futile details indeed, but still Seneca and Horace would suggest the following small improvements: solertissimas (not -um) and invida, without s.
Personally I prefer Horace Epistulae 1, 5 over this serious matter: Fecundi calices, quem non fecere disertum!

Dr. Jan Bosselaers
"Dochterland", Rerum novarumlaan 2
B-2340 Beerse, Belgium
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> Transcurramus solertissimum nugas. Dum loquimur fugerit invidas aetas.
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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
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> 
> 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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