A note on four historical names recorded in<i>Aloe</i>L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

The recording of previously undetected or overlooked, effectively and validly published names from long‐forgotten literature, their absorption into datasets, such as the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) and Tropicos, widely accessible electronically through the worldwide web, and subsequent adoption as accepted names in the literature, have an undeniably destabilizing impact on plant nomenclature. It is critically important that a way be found soon to prevent such names, which are sometimes, but not always, laboriously proposed for rejection from disrupting the stability of the names in use for organisms covered by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. For effect to be given to such a preventative system, the establishment and formal recognition of a designated online database of names of families, genera, and species published up to 1970 for vascular plants is of the utmost importance. One way to institute such a system would be to make the inclusion, on a specific date, of a plant name in that database—we propose IPNI—a condition for valid publication for names that are retrieved from literature published prior to 1 January 1970. We argue that this system, based on IPNI 2020, should be implemented on 1 January 2020. Until then the work being done to sanitize existing indices of plant names must continue unabated.

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Increasing nomenclatural stability by preventing the introduction of long‐forgotten names that will compete with ones in use: A solution must be found, and soon

Smith

Figueiredo

Moore

2016

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In the process of saving plant names from oblivion: The revised nomenclature of Ceratozamiafuscoviridis (Zamiaceae)

Calonje

Sennikov

2017

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David Moore provisionally and therefore invalidly published the name Ceratozamia fuscoviridis in 1878. The name was subsequently accepted with a brief description the year after in one of William Bull's horticultural catalogues, resulting in its valid publication. In 2006, Roy Osborne and co-authors intended to validate Moore's C. fuscoviridis, a name that they identified as applicable to a cycad occurring in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico. However, they were unaware of the protologue published by Bull and instead created an isonym with no nomenclatural status. Their holotype designation has no standing but that specimen is here designated as a neotype, therefore retaining the name C. fuscoviridis in use for the species from Hidalgo. Considerations regarding the increasing discovery of validly published names in historical literature are discussed as pertaining to the nomenclature of cycads, with the case of C. fuscoviridis providing an example of an old and obsolete plant name that is dealt with in a way that fosters nomenclatural stability.

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Out with the old, in with the new? Historical names recorded in Agave L. (Agavaceae / Asparagaceae)

Smith

Figueiredo

2014

Bradleya

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A note on four historical names recorded inAloeL. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

Abstract: historischen Namen etabliert wurde. Im Nomenclaturcode muss ein formaler Mechanismus eingeführt werden, um möglichst ganz zu vermeiden, dass solche Namen die seit langem gängigerweise verwendeten Namen ersetzen.

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Increasing nomenclatural stability by preventing the introduction of long‐forgotten names that will compete with ones in use: A solution must be found, and soon

Increasing nomenclatural stability by preventing the introduction of long‐forgotten names that will compete with ones in use: A solution must be found, and soon

In the process of saving plant names from oblivion: The revised nomenclature of Ceratozamiafuscoviridis (Zamiaceae)

Out with the old, in with the new? Historical names recorded in Agave L. (Agavaceae / Asparagaceae)

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