By David Gledhill
The Names of crops is a useful reference for botanists and horticulturalists. the 1st part provides an historic account of the numerous alterations within the ways in which vegetation were identified and named. It files the issues linked to an ever-increasing variety of universal names of vegetation, and the answer of those difficulties during the creation of foreign Codes for either botanical and horticultural nomenclature. It additionally outlines the foundations to be whilst plant breeders identify a brand new species or cultivar. the second one part includes a thesaurus of popular and particular plant names, and elements of those, from which the reader may well interpret the prevailing names of crops and build new names. With motives of the foreign Codes for either Botanical Nomenclature (2000) and Nomenclature for Cultivated crops (1995), this version includes a tremendously extended thesaurus, such as the Greek, Latin, or different resource of every plant identify.
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Linnaea is one of the names which commemorate Linnaeus. Sibara is an anagram of Arabis. Aa is the name given by Reichenbach to an orchid genus which he segregated from Altensteinia. It has no meaning and, as others have observed, must always appear first in an alphabetic listing. The generic names of some Old World plants were taken from Greek mythology by the ancients, or are identical to the names of characters in Greek mythology. g. Althaea, Cecropia, Circaea, Melia, Phoenix, Tagetes, Thalia, Endymion, Hebe, Paeonia and Paris).
Omeiensis ‘Praecox’. [49] Commercial breeders have produced enormous numbers of cultivars and cultivar names. Some have found popularity and have therefore persisted and remained available to gardeners but huge numbers have not done so and have been lost or remain only as references in the literature. The popular practice of naming new cultivars for people (friends, growers, popular personalities or royalty) or the nursery originating the new cultivar is a form of flattery. For those honouring people who made some mark upon horticulture during their lifetime it is more likely that we can discover more about the plant bearing their name but, for the vast majority of those disappearing into obscurity, the only record may be the use of their name in a nurseryman’s catalogue.
The present scope of the Code is expressed in the Principles, which have evolved from the de Candollean Lois: 1 Botanical nomenclature is independent of zoological nomenclature. The Code applies equally to names of taxonomic groups treated as plants whether or not these groups were originally so treated. 2 The application of names of taxonomic groups is determined by means of nomenclatural types. 3 The nomenclature of a taxonomic group is based upon priority of publication. 4 Each taxonomic group with a particular circumscription, position and rank can bear only one correct name, the earliest which is in accordance with the rules, except in specified cases.