Ferula & nomenclature
At 10:47 PM 8/4/1999 +0200, you wrote:
>I missed the beginning of the thread but I think The name, if not yet
>mentioned is: Ferula assa-foetida.
>
>At 10:48 -0700 04-08-1999, Deborah Lindsay wrote:
>>Richard wrote:
>> I dont recall the latter's specific name, just that it can get 6 - 8
>>feet tall, and that the furanocoumarins are potent sensitizers for dermal
>>problems. The specific name sounded Armenian, began with "h", and was
>>polysyllabic."
>>
>
>Roger Bastin
Roger:
The correct spelling for F. asafoetida still eludes me. I found four
different forms in the Web pages I searched, with and without hypens, and
with 1 or 2 `s'es:
F. asafoetida*
F. assafoetida
F. asa-foetida
F. assa-foetida*
*most popular forms
I wish the RGB Kew database would get to the species level. I can imagine
how busy it would be.
Anyway, I found these Web pages on nomenclature, which should be helpful for
resolving many problems:
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iopi/iopimodel73/7305name.htm
Here is the text from the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature,
(Tokyo Code), Electronic version:
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/tokyo-e/Contents.htm
It covers the naming of plants. I looked this up for an Alpine-L respondant
and came upon the comment on Salvia africana caerulea, which I thought you
should be apprised of.
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
(Tokyo Code), Electronic version
CHAPTER III. NOMENCLATURE OF TAXA ACCORDING TO THEIR RANK
SECTION 4. NAMES OF SPECIES
Article 23
Richard F. Dufresne
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