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In message , Sacha
writes On 25/2/07 08:57, in article , "Broadback" wrote: snip Using Latin names is confusing enough for me, but why do they so often seem to change plant names? It's to do with classifying them properly from the purist's botanical pov. I see why it's done but it irritates, I must admit. It's like that lovely lemon scented leafed thing which I still call Lippia citrodora (also known as lemon verbena to some) That has a 'new' name but I just cannot get it into my head and never, ever remember it. Aloysia triphylla. (I had to look up the triphylla bit.) Both triphylla and citriodora are old epithets for this plant; presumably triphylla is the older. Both have a record of usage. Both epithets were original published in Verbena. Lippia is an older name than Aloysia, so the choice of Aloysia is presumably a result of the division of various plants among genera, rather than of the application of the principle of priority. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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