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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Van: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org namens greg whitbread<BR>
Verzonden: zo 21-11-2010 11:22<BR>
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> To complete the circle ...<BR>
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> <A HREF="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/plants.html">http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/plants.html</A> =<BR>
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> Plant Taxonomic Database Standards No. 3<BR>
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I have not looked at this in detail, but a truly outrageous error<BR>
immediately jumps out!, where it says<BR>
"The full name of an intergeneric hybrid has in addition<BR>
an "x" (lower case alphabetic x symbol) preceding the<BR>
generic name as a generic hybrid marker. "<BR>
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"The full name of a named interspecific hybrid or chimaera<BR>
has in addition an "x" (lower case alphabetic x) or "+"<BR>
plus sign) preceding the species epithet"<BR>
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There is no conceivable ambiguity in<BR>
"Art. H.1.1. Hybridity is indicated by the use of the<BR>
multiplication sign × or by the addition of the prefix<BR>
“notho-”¹ to the term denoting the rank of the taxon."<BR>
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There never has been a "(lower case alphabetic x)" allowed, except<BR>
where there is force majeure.<BR>
"Rec. H.3A.2. If the multiplication sign is not available<BR>
it should be approximated by a lower case letter “x”<BR>
(not italicized)."<BR>
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(BTW, there is no such thing as a "species epithet" in botany;<BR>
it is a "specific epithet").<BR>
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Paul van Rijckevorsel<BR>
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