DIVISION II. RULES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER V. REJECTION OF NAMES
Article 51
51.1. A legitimate name must not be rejected merely because it, or its epithet, is inappropriate or disagreeable, or because another is preferable or better known (but see
Art. 56.1), or because it has lost its original meaning, or (in pleomorphic fungi with names governed by
Art. 59) because the morph represented by its type is not in accordance with that of the type of the generic name.
Ex. 1. The following changes are contrary to the rule:
Staphylea to Staphylis, Tamus to Thamnos, Thamnus, or
Tamnus, Mentha to Minthe, Tillaea to Tillia, Vincetoxicum to
Alexitoxicum; and Orobanche rapum to O. sarothamnophyta,
O. columbariae to O. columbarihaerens, O. artemisiae to O.
artemisiepiphyta.
Ex. 2. Ardisia quinquegona Blume (1825) is not to be changed to
A. pentagona A. DC. (1834), although the specific epithet
quinquegona is a hybrid word (Latin and Greek) (contrary to
Rec. 23A.3(c)).
Ex. 3. The name
Scilla peruviana L. (1753) is not to be rejected merely because the species does not grow in Peru.
Ex. 4. The name
Petrosimonia oppositifolia (Pall.) Litv. (1911), based on
Polycnemum oppositifolium Pall. (1771), is not to be rejected merely because the species has leaves only partly opposite, and partly alternate, although there is another closely related species,
Petrosimonia brachiata (Pall.) Bunge, having all its leaves opposite.
Ex. 5. Richardia L. (1753) is not to be changed to
Richardsonia, as was done by Kunth (1818), although the name was originally dedicated to the British botanist,
Richardson.
Ex. 6. The name
Sphaeria tiliae Pers. (Syn. Meth. Fung.: 84. 1801) is not to be
rejected because the holotype represents an anamorphic fungus, whereas the type of
Sphaeria Haller 1768, that of
S. fragiformis Pers., is a teleomorphic fungus. The epithet may therefore be used in the combination
Rabenhorstia tiliae
(Pers.) Fr. (Summ. Veg. Scand.: 410. 1849) for the anamorph of
Hercospora tiliae Tul. & C. Tul. (Sel. Fung. Carp. 2: 154. 1863).
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2006, by International Association for Plant Taxonomy. This page last updated
16.03.2007
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