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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Principles of the Botanical Code

(Spencer, R., Cross, R. & Lumley, P. 2007. plant names - A guide to botanical nomenclature.  Third edition. Melbourne: Csiro Publishing)

Principle 1: plant nomenclature, animal nomenclature and bacteriological nomenclature are independent.

Principle 2: the names of plants or plant groups are based on TYPES which, with rare exceptions, are actual dried specimens of plants.

Principle 3: nomenclature is based on priority of publication. This principle stresses the overriding importance of the first published name and, together with Principle 4, provides a means of determining which of several published names for the same plant is correct.

Principle 4: each plant or group of plants within a particular system of classification can bear only one correct name: the earliest one following the rules.

Principle 5: scientific names are to be treated as Latin.

Principle 6: rules of the Botanical Code are retrospective.

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