[Aroid-l] Tropicos

From: ronmchatton at aol.com (ronmchatton at aol.com) on 2007.10.22 at 13:45:05(16573) For the priority name of monocots you might want to examine the Kew World Checklist of Monocotyledons.? It's searchable on the web and can be found by googling monocot checklist.? It represents a massive effort over the last 6 or so years to match taxons to their synonyms as well as establish a priority name following the ICBN rules.? In Orchidaceae the nomenclature follows Genera Orchidacearum so things like Schomburgkia no longer exist; having been partially transferred to a new genus Myrmecophila and the remainder transfered to Laelia.? This is the only list that attempts to establish a priority name.? At times the list can be a little behind new species descriptions.? You can find those names on the International Plant Names Index (IPNI).? IPNI, the old Index Kewensis, is just a list of properly published names and doesn't attempt to establish priority either. Tropicos was essentially designed to catalog MOBOT's holdings and to link them to the synonyms cited on those holdings.? As an example, MOBOT has two specimens of what is currently considered to be Guarianthe (syn. Cattleya)?aurantiaca.? They both list 4 or 5?synonyms?none of which are Guarianthe aurantiaca the current accepted name.? A search under that accepted name will return no results. Ron McHatton +More Central Florida -----Original Message----- From: Leo A. Martin To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com Sent: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 8:07 pm Subject: [Aroid-l] Tropicos > Tropicos, for some reason, continues to carry > some outdated and incorrect information on plants, > and appears to be in dire need > of being updated. Volunteers??? I don't think Tropicos' maintainers intend it to be the place to go for the currently accepted name of a plant. I think the mission is to display all published names for plants. Deciding what is correct is up to the reader. You may notice all the names given have publication information attached so it may be looked up. Leo Martin Phoenix Arizona USA _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20071022/434b85d1/attachment-0001.htm

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