Re: What is "introduction"?

In a message dated 1/7/00 7:52:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, cris@netcom.ca 
writes:

<< Okay, no problem. We will just agree to disagree! Cheers. >>

Mais oui.

I tell you where my thoughts are going, Chris. I have hesitated to speculate 
since that would involve my getting into things about which I KNOW I don't 
have the full technical scoop, but, with a heavy mulch of caveats ...

I suspect the AIS Registration and Introduction procedure is designed to 
serve several different goals. I suspect there are goals unique to AIS, like 
maintaining its own records for Awards purposes, which would certainly 
involve keeping track of not only Registrations, but also Introductions, 
which last would not necessarily have to be in a permanent format. 

And then there are the things involved with the AIS role as International 
Registration Authority for the genus Iris. Now this duty involves two kinds 
of plants, the natural species, covered by the International Code of 
Botanical Nomenclature, and cultivated plants, those selected and developed 
specifically for unique horticultural or agricultural characteristics, which 
are covered by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, 
which was revised in 1994 and which I have not seen. The rules are, I 
understand, similar, but different, and I do not know whether Introduction is 
required by the ICNCP so that it would be part of the business of 
legitimizing a name. I doubt it.

My older book on the ICBN notes that commercial catalogs are not a valid 
venue for "publication" to fulfill the requirements of establishing an 
effective new name for species plants. I don't know if this is still the 
case, and if so if it also holds for cultivated plants. I could argue the 
point that, since the goal of publication is to get the word out to the 
interested community, it is not suitable venue for announcing a new botanical 
species, but is the most effective venue for 'publication' of names of 
cultivated plants, especially those in a genus with no International 
Registration Authority. At some point rules for trademark and patent may 
enter this picture, for commercial purposes, but, mercifully, not for irises 
at this time. 

Names of hybrid irises which are not 'introduced' are, to my knowledge, still 
valid names, although they can be released later. Therefore the question for 
me is at what point does 'publication' for taxonomic purposes occur. Is it in 
a catalog or Bulletin ad, or does it occur prior to that in the annually 
published R&I. Or is the system set up with failsafes. 

As I said, I think there are may be several processes at work both to get 
things tidy from the standpoint of registering new nomenclature, and also to 
ensure that AIS has full records for purposes of its own. But I don't know 
enough to say which piece of info goes into which cubbyhole, or which piece 
of the ritual serves which goal, or goals. 

Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com



 

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