Sometimes a hyphen (Douglas-fir), or sometimes two words are just
concatenated (e.g., western redcedar = Thuja plicata,
family Cupressaceae). Perhaps a better way to phrase it is "not the
species or family you might think it is".
Caveat -- I'm not a botanist.
On 1-Oct-09, at 7:02 PM, Warren W. Aney wrote:
A botanist may correct me, but my understanding is hyphenation is
used to
indicate the common name is not a true species, e.g., Douglas-fir
is not a
true fir.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
Tigard, OR
Don McKenzie, Research Ecologist
Pacific WIldland Fire Sciences Lab
US Forest Service
Affiliate Professor
School of Forest Resources, College of the Environment
CSES Climate Impacts Group
University of Washington
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