New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
The orthography of fungal names with specific and infraspecific
epithets referring to New Zealand
S. R. Pennycook
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Private Bag 92 170
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Abstract The protologues are reviewed of all 227 fungal names
with epithets that refer to New Zealand, and orthographic corrections
are indicated for those epithets that do not comply with the
requirements of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
(ICBN). One hundred and seventy-one of the names were “new” (i.e.,
basionyms, nomina nova, nomina nuda); 21% of them had epithets that
failed to comply with ICBN orthographic requirements. Fifty-six of the
names were recombinations, 30% of which had epithets that did not match
the orthography of their basionyms. A set of standard orthographies is
suggested, and the appropriateness of their use is discussed.
Keywords nomenclature; fungi; lichens; orthographic errors; novae-zelandiae
B07033; Online publication date 25 February 2008; Received 8 August
2007; accepted 26 November 2007
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2008, Vol. 46: 23–38
0028–825X/08/4601–0023 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2008
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