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WILLIAM THEOBALD (1829‐1908): UNWITTING REFORMER OF BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE?
Author(s) -
Mabberley D. J.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1221583
Subject(s) - homonym (biology) , theobald , nomenclature , botany , biology , history , classics , philosophy , taxonomy (biology) , zoology , genus
Summary An early advocate of priority in specific epithets in the face of British colonial botany, William Theobald, validly published some 26 binomials for Burmese plants for the first time in his edition of Mason's Burmah (1883). Ignored until now, many are in current use as coined later by Kuntze, Druce and others. One completely overlooked binomial is Vaccinium angulatum (Griff.) Theob., an earlier homonym of V. angulatum J. J. Sm., which is here renamed V. commutatum Mabb. & Sleumer, while Neptunia natans (L. f.) Druce is a later homonym of N. natans (Willd.) Theob., so that N. oleracea Lour. is restored.