thegardener

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.

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

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.

This is incorrect.

The gender and case of the *specific epithet*... not species. I’m being pedantic, I know, but this was the whole reason behind my post. It’s also worth noting that to be strictly correct, for plants the authority, too, should be included. That is to say the first person (since Linnaeus) to document that name for the species. So here here it would be Quercus rubra L.

Hence to determine species we rely on both the genus and specific epithet to be present. Specific epithet alone says nothing unless the genus proceeds it. the first two paragraphs below highlight the point I’m making.

But rubra in of itself does not define the distinctions of a ‘species’. Many plants have the specific epithet rubra. Both the genus + the specific epithet are required together to identify the species, surely.

Been having a discussion about this with someone and can’t seem to settle on a right answer. If we take the genus Quercus, and then add the specific epithet, say, rubra, is it these two identifying names together that form the ‘species’? This is how I’ve always understood it.

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