Binomial nomenclature, query...

[thegardener]

2 minutes ago, tree77 said:

That's my understanding to

This is incorrect. 

[tree77]

26 minutes ago, tree77 said:

That's my understanding to

I was always tort the plant kingdom order Was 

Family, genus, species, variety/cultivar.

I know there's sub species etc.

 

Looking on the RHS Website  it doesn't seem to support what your saying?

 

 

[thegardener]

4 minutes ago, tree77 said:

I was always tort the plant kingdom order Was 

Family, genus, species, variety/cultivar.

I know there's sub species etc.

 

Looking on the RHS Website  it doesn't seem to support what your saying?

 

 

See the paper i linked above. It is non-sensical that the specific epithet (rubra) be referred to as species. Species is determined by the whoe two-part name, that is: genus + specific epithet. 

[tree77]

2 minutes ago, thegardener said:

See the paper i linked above. It is non-sensical that the specific epithet (rubra) be referred to as species. Species is determined by the whoe two-part name, that is: genus + specific epithet. 

Taken from RHS Level 3: Plant taxonomy, structure, and function

[thegardener]

23 minutes ago, tree77 said:

Taken from RHS Level 3: Plant taxonomy, structure, and function

Confusion arises here regards the language used. It's why I brought up the topic to begin with. To say 'the species of the plant is used as the second part' doesn't make sense. Rubra is not a species and alone is meaningless and tells us nothing.

 

Source: 

When classifying plants in Latin, don’t forget about gender

RIVERDALEPRESS.COM

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In my previous column about botanical Latin, I seemed to indicate that Swedish doctor Carl Linnaeus had immediately...

 

 

Edited July 27, 2020 by thegardener

[tree77]

38 minutes ago, thegardener said:

Confusion arises here regards the language used. It's why I brought up the topic to begin with. To say 'the species of the plant is used as the second part' doesn't make sense. Rubra is not a species and alone is meaningless and tells us nothing.

 

Source: 

When classifying plants in Latin, don’t forget about gender

RIVERDALEPRESS.COM

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In my previous column about botanical Latin, I seemed to indicate that Swedish doctor Carl Linnaeus had immediately...

 

 

So reading that it makes sense but it says its technically wrong but has it been implemented in the way we write names?

 

At the moment I have half dozen plant books which are incorrect reading those articles

Edited July 27, 2020 by tree77

[thegardener]

Just now, tree77 said:

So reading that it makes sense but it says its technically wrong but has been implemented in the way we write names?

 

At the moment I have half dozen plant books which are incorrect reading those articles

I'm in no position to assert that the books are wrong! But looking at this in detail, what's described in the articles makes the most logical sense to me.