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Nomenclature Question
Good afternoon,
My boss just came to me and asked, "Do you have any idea what the "n.o." in front of a botanical family name means?" Now, I probably knew the answer to this back when I was in college, but it has since been purged from my mind. I've been looking through the International Code of Botanical Nonmenclature trying to figure this out, but I'm having no luck. Does anyone happen to know the answer to this, right off the top of their heads? example: n.o. Aristolochiaceae Thanks for your help! |
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Nomenclature Question
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Mareyn writes Good afternoon, My boss just came to me and asked, "Do you have any idea what the "n.o." in front of a botanical family name means?" Now, I probably knew the answer to this back when I was in college, but it has since been purged from my mind. I've been looking through the International Code of Botanical Nonmenclature trying to figure this out, but I'm having no luck. Does anyone happen to know the answer to this, right off the top of their heads? example: n.o. Aristolochiaceae Thanks for your help! It's new to me as well. In the absence of any context, I'd take a guess that it might be "natural order". -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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Nomenclature Question
I'm guessing that would be "natural order", i.e. "ordo naturalis" in
Latin. Herbalists seem to use the term a lot. See ICBN article 18.2 for a list of these old terms that should be translated into "family". On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:54:35 -0700, Mareyn wrote (in article . com): My boss just came to me and asked, "Do you have any idea what the "n.o." in front of a botanical family name means?" Now, I probably knew the answer to this back when I was in college, but it has since been purged from my mind. I've been looking through the International Code of Botanical Nonmenclature trying to figure this out, but I'm having no luck. Does anyone happen to know the answer to this, right off the top of their heads? example: n.o. Aristolochiaceae Thanks for your help! -------------------------------------------------- Nadia Talent Department of Botany, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, M5S 3B2, Canada Fax +1 416-978-5878 Also: Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park West, Toronto, M5S 2C6 |
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Nomenclature Question
I'm finding it mainly in article titles and on sites that reference
medicinal uses. This is a link to a PubMed reference that has the n.o. in the title: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum And here is a link to a botanical site that I've been perusing: http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/s/snaker56.html When I search sites such as the USDA Plants Database, the n.o. doesn't appear. Thanks! |
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Nomenclature Question
Stewart Robert Hinsley" schreef
example: n.o. Aristolochiaceae It's new to me as well. In the absence of any context, I'd take a guess that it might be "natural order". -- Stewart Robert Hinsley *** I probably would not have thought of that, but it looks like a good guess to me. Must be something like a century since this was used in botany? PvR |
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