Re:Nepenthes naming

From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
Date: Fri Feb 14 1997 - 07:48:47 PST


Date:          Fri, 14 Feb 1997 07:48:47 
From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg595$foo@default>
Subject:       Re:Nepenthes naming

Dear Dave,

> I was thinking of naming the hybrid as _N. * splendiana_, not a
> single clone as a cultivar

So you have the problem here that you do not agree with the author s
original intention.

> (and I really couldn't since, I didn't produce the plant, right?).

This would not be any problem. Most cultivars were named after their
breeders, not by the breeders themselves.

> Since, it was never validated
> as a cultivar and the name has already been in use for sometime,
> it will keeping with the name's tradition.

The name s tradition is an awful one (nomen nudum since 1992).

> The plant is indeed splendid, so latinizing the English word would
> also be appropriate.

So you will run into another rather serious problem. The correct
translation would be "splendida" (not "splendiana", which is only
suitable for naming the plant after a person or locality called
Splend or Splendi), and the former is already an epithet used for
another hybrid (N. * splendida HORT. ex MACF., Pflanzenr. 36:87,
1908), so you would create an (instantaneously illegitimate) later
homonym by using this.

> > Cultivars do not
> > need to be described in a protologue (no Latin, no type, no
> > taxonomic relevance).
>
> Well, I was hoping to produce something with a bit more relevance.

Impossible with hybrids of horticultural origin.

> I suppose I need to contact Bruce B. before continueing with the
> project to clarify his intent, but since the name doesn't work
> as a cultivar, he might like it to be applied to the hybrid in
> general... (as you can see, I do ;) )

I don t.

> Thank-you for the very instructive details about making a specimum
> and naming cultivars. I'm going the be naming one or two Sarracenia
> cultivars in the future when the plants are larger and more photogenic.
> The differences I noted in these plants *were* appearent from a very
> young age, and they haven't even reached the age of a year, yet.

Fine. This is what cultivar registration is made for.

Kind regards
Jan



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