"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Janet Tweedy writes:
| In article , Kay
| writes
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Most biological terminology uses Latin nomemclature, but the official
language of botany is Latin. A plant isn't officially named until
it has been described in grammatically correct Latin.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

can't argue with the first part but I am not sure the second is still
correct, It is now seems to be accepted that a good description in your
native language using correct terminology ( stamens brown, leaves ovate,
etc.) in a freely available and widely circulated publication will suffice
(I have now done this 4 times) which is just as well as I could not have
managed the Latin. It may well be that a new species would have to be
described only in Latin, but I think cultivars have had the rules relaxed it
recent years.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

In article ,
"Charlie Pridham" writes:
|
| Most biological terminology uses Latin nomemclature, but the official
| language of botany is Latin. A plant isn't officially named until
| it has been described in grammatically correct Latin.
|
| can't argue with the first part but I am not sure the second is still
| correct, It is now seems to be accepted that a good description in your
| native language using correct terminology ( stamens brown, leaves ovate,
| etc.) in a freely available and widely circulated publication will suffice
| (I have now done this 4 times) which is just as well as I could not have
| managed the Latin. It may well be that a new species would have to be
| described only in Latin, but I think cultivars have had the rules relaxed it
| recent years.

Yes, but that's horticulture not botany :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.