In article , Franz Heymann
writes

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , Franz Heymann
writes
Hear hear. It would be even better if all taxonomists found
something
else to do.

Now that I really must take issue with!
What taxonomists are trying to do is establish the 'family tree' for
plants (or animals) - which in turn is the basis for many
similarities
of properties and underpins a good deal of botany, horticulture and
agriculture.

Indeed. But they get it wrong far too often.

I don't think changing of names is the same as 'getting it wrong'. It's
about reacting to increases in knowledge

Why don't they just
leave it to the DNA wallahs to sort things?

Well, that's only been round as an option for 25 years or so.
Taxonomists got an awful long way before that.


--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

Kay Easton wrote in
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In article , RichardS
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"Victoria Clare" wrote in message
8.240.10...
Maybe we should use the biographer's convention:

"Anemonella thalictroides (as she then was)..."

"Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (as she now is)"


Or refer to them as the cumbersome:

Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (nee Anemonella thalictroides)

:-)

.. except that the usual term is 'syn'

which is fine, as long as you know both/all the names.

I'd should point out for the benefit of anyone browsing future archives
that:

Dorotheanthus bellidiformis is *not* the same as Anemonella
thalictroides.

They were just a couple of names of rebadged plants that came to mind -
should have made that clearer!

Victoria
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gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
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