Message: 4 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:26:08 -0500 From: Dorothy Potter Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [OGD] "Fraud" Valley Orchids To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"So if I understand correctly, an orchid, in order to be properly identified, must have it's full and correct name. Dot Dorothy, the generally accepted convention in Botany is that a plant must be desribed validly and the punlication must be effective. An effective publication can only occur with a validly described plant. For such a valid description, the International Association of Plant Taxonomist (IAPT) - publishes rules. These Rules are usually referred to as the Code. Among other things set by the code is the naming of plants (naturally occurring plants). The are given a name formed by words, the first indicating the genus and the second indicating the species. To be fully correct, a plant name also consists of the name of the author and the year of publication. Thus a plant is chracteriszed by, for example Cattleya labiata Lindley 1822. (the author name and the date are usually supprest) I will keep it as simple as that .. Now, as far as Botany is concerned, a plant that has not received such a name, amnd has not been published effectively simply does not exist. The rules for naming Hybrids are different ... However, having given a plant a proper and valid name, cannot exclude the possibility that the name is misused or that the correct name of the plants is not recognised: For example Phragmipedium schlimii .... The plant is well known. However Phragmipedium schlimii 'Wilcox' or Phragmipedium schlimii 'Birchwood' are two plants that have been named as "Phragmipedium schlimii" but are de facto plants of the hybrid Phragmipedium cardinale. No-one can stop people fgrom making mistakes. Now these misnamed plants have been awarded. So the question is ... what is to be done about it? This as a bit of "plant naming" Guido J. Braem |
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