Re: SPU: New botanical Iris name

Won't work.  There is only one authority for the species.  Rather, somoeone jsut missused the name for his whole carreer, but was otherwise a great scientist.  And the real T. longatum wasn't in cultivation.
I think the origional problem was that this guy couldn't read Latin and guessed.  Wrong.  And published widely, and had many influencial students.
Or maybe he ddidn't have a copy of a taxonomic guide to the Triticums.  Some of the ag schools of a century ago didn't have great libraries.
Walter

ChatOWhitehall@aol.com wrote:
Shouldn't including the authority in the name take care of that? I mean call 
it "'Wheat ishgabbible Whosii" or whatever it was? Not the done thing in wheat?

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