Agronomy journal, Vol. 67 No. 6, 2005.
Professional paper
Importance of botanical nomenclature for a proper designation of plant taxa
Ivo Trinajstić
Abstract
In a period of almost 250 years, since the first issue of Linné's work "Species Plantarum" in 1753 to the latest issue of the Code of Nomenclature in 2000, the botanical nomanclature has passed a long scientific way. As the basis in giving names to species a two-name designation or a binary nomenclature is used, according to which in course of time about 300-350 thousand species of vascular plants alone have been designated with at least as many, and certainly more of their synonyms. A large number of thus designated and described species and infraspecific taxa (subspecies, varieties and forms) have kept their names in the form such as published originally, but an equally large number of species had to be revised nomenclaturally in various ways. For a proper nomenclatural revision the Codes Interenational of Botanical Nomenclarture are used, which since the second half of the 19th century to these days have been improved, and the nomanclatural revision of many plant taxa has taken place until lately. Finally, for a proper designation of cultivated plants the adequate nomenlcaure codes (Nomenclarture for Cultivated Plants) are also available; the last issue of such a code was published in 1995. In this paper, some examples of the nomenclatural revision of plant taxa will be discussed.
Keywords
Taxonomy; Botanical Nomenclature; Culltivated Plants
Hrčak ID:
2593
URI
Publication date:
10.12.2005.
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