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More on names

Today I've been at a meeting at the Royal Horticultural Society. It 
was convened by their Head of Science to bring together a wide range 
of people with an interest in plant nomenclature: writers, book and 
magazine editors, botanists, nursery people, label manufacturers and 
including the people responsible for editing The Plant Finder. The 
point was to extend the exploration of issues of plant nomenclature 
beyond the relatively closed world of the botanists and out into the 
commercial world.

It was not intended to make decisions, but the views expressed will 
inform discussion at a conference in August in Toronto (4th 
International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants - more 
at http://www.ihc2002.org/ihc2002/multi_day-symposia_S22.htm) at 
which a revision of the International Code of Nomenclature for 
Cultivated Plants will be ratified. These are the rules which govern 
the naming of cultivated plants (as distinct from wild plants) and it 
seems likely that, in general, the rules will be simplified, made 
less restrictive and presented in a far more accessible way. Sounds 
good to me...

I gather that a draft version of the new Code will be posted online 
in good time before the conference so comments can be made; when this 
happens I will post the url here for the benefit of the few 
nomenclatural nerds on this list. Seriously, plant nomenclature is 
fundamental to what we all do - when we give a plant name in our work 
it has to be absolutely clear to which plant we are referring... 
otherwise we are only spreading confusion. So we should all take an 
interest.

Graham Rice

http://grahamrice.com

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