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[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

I get lots of niche plant catalogs written by specialists in one corner of the plant workd or another.  They all curse changing nomenclature on a yearly basis.

Ginda

On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 10:38 AM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:

> I'll chime in on some.  Vitis longii has been changed to V. acerifolia, V. candicans -> V. mustangensis.  And Vitis rotundifolia -> Muscadinia rotundifolia.  I think only the last one is justified, since Muscadinia has a different chromosome number than Vitis.  The other two changes don't really serve any useful purpose.
> -Lon Rombough
>
>
> From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:47:46 -0500
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] changing scientific nomenclature
>
> Name changes in the plant world have been less common(to my knowledge) -
> are the plant taxonomists sleeping?  Several of the oak species have been
> 'renamed', most not so much on the basis of DNA comparisons as by
> previously accepted misidentifications and acceptance of conventional names
> based on chronologic identification(someone had previously IDed and named a
> species, but a later name had gained more widespread usage).  Only other
> major plant name change that I can think of, off the top of my head, is the
> Japanese Pagodatree/Chinese Scholar Tree, Sophora japonica, which has
> recently been changed to Styphnolobia japonica.