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The report is finally out... Enjoy! Congratulations Heather & Helen (from IPNI), @SandyKnapp, Anna Monro and Nicholas Turland: XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen: report of the Nomenclature Section, 17th to 21st July 2017 doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.15… via @Phytokeys
Hello! An apology for not tweeting or retweeting or liking or @-ing recently, but our team have been put on furlough until the end of May due to the Coronavirus situation. Hopefully normal business will resume in June!#StayAtHomeAndStaySafe
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#TuesdayTeaser No. 7 Answer:
Greek words ending in -ον (-on) are usually neuter e.g. 'dendron', but Greek words ending in -ων (-on) are masculine.
Alectryon (ἀλεκτρυών) is the ancient Greek word for rooster, and is masculine, even though Gaertner treated it as neuter!
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#TuesdayTeaser No. 7 is another question of gender!
This time, the genus Alectryon (Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 217. t. 46. 1788.).
But we don't just want your guess on the gender today, we want your explanations too. Answer c. 15:30 BST
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Morning all! Our #TuesdayTeaser is coming up at 10:30 am BST today. We hope you are all staying #safe and #well in your various states of #lockdown. Here's a pic from outside our office earlier this year. #Kew #DaviesAlpineHouse
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#TuesdayTeaser No. 6. was obviously too easy for you all.
What can we infer about Prof. Li Heng, based on the new species Alocasia lihengiae?
Answer: that she is a woman!
See #ICN (2018) Art. 60.8.(b)
bit.ly/3dIDaIl
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It's #Tuesday folks, so it's time for a nomenclatural #teaser! #TuesdayTeaser No. 6:
What can we infer about Prof. Li Heng, a Chinese expert on the Araceae, based on the new species Alocasia lihengiae C.L.Long & Q.Fang (Phytotaxa 436(2): 98, 2020)?
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OK, so the answer to #TuedayTeaser No. 5 is...the gender of the genus Semecarpus is masculine. See Art. 62.2 Ex. 3 of #TheCode #ICN
Well done @cabbageleek & @C_Puglisi! Our issue was that most of the adjectival specific epithets in this genus were published as feminine!🤔
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@MartinNickol yes, we wondered about trees being feminine was a thing too! But, not in this case.
So...the #IPNIteam has just spent c. 30 mins discussing (over Skype) the gender of the genus Semecarpus L.
From the IPNI website it looked #GenderFluid!
Our #TuesdayTeaser No. 5 today then is: What gender is the genus Semecarpus?
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Like many of you, the #IPNITeam are all #WorkingFromHome now. Big #THANKS to the #Kew IT staff and @Kew_LAA for providing us with the resources we need to continue our work. More than 400 new records added/amended this week already! #StaySafeEveryone #FridayMotivation
#WeirdNameWednesday: Daviesia devito refers to the actor playing the diminutive twin in the Universal Studios film ‘Twins’ (1988). It is apparently the less vigorous of two cryptic species, in contrast to the much more robust Daviesia schwarzenegger bit.ly/2Qsf22B
#WeirdNameWednesday: Daviesia devito refers to the actor playing the diminutive twin in the Universal Studios film ‘Twins’ (1988). It is apparently the less vigorous of two cryptic species, in contrast to the much more robust Daviesia schwarzenegger bit.ly/2Qsf22B
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Answer to #TuesdayTeaser No. 4: too easy for you all...Yes, the description was in French. In 1936 the description had to be in Latin to be validly published. This rule only came into effect on 1 Jan 1935, before that a description in any language was OK.
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Careful if you are self-isolating! Henry Trimen, while Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, wrote to #KewGardens in 1885 saying: "I really want a visit home, as I feel that a natural tendency to isolation is increasing to a mild misanthropy" bit.ly/2UhCxg5 😉