<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 March 2012 20:17, Roderic Page <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk">r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Apart from the fact that I can barely bring myself to care about plants ;) I suspect that the vast majority of names do not present these problems. Why do we let edge cases determine what we do?</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The first argument is valid, the second not. A high fraction of plant names have infraspecific taxa, and by necessity any such name has one autonym plus one or several separate infraspecific names.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yes, usage of infraspecific names is considerably lower than usage of specific names, but it is not an edge case. Even hybrids are not an edge case - I really whish I could forget about them, but they always crop up and annoy me...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Gregor</div></div>