The Treatment of Aublet's Generic Names By His Contemporaries and By Present-Day Taxonomists
1984; Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Volume: 65; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5962/p.185919
ISSN2474-3283
Autores Tópico(s)Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
ResumoIn 1775 Aublet published his [Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Francoise, an illustrated account of his botanical studies in the French colony between 1762 and 1764.In this work Aublet described many new species and introduced 208 new genera of plants to science.In a recent work, Howard (1983) dealt with the identities of the plants illustrated in the 392 plates in the work, reviewed the various taxonomic problems or uncertainties concerning the identities of some of Aublet's species, and presented a selected list of critical references that consider Aublet or the plants that he collected and described.The purpose of the present paper is to review how several botanists who were contemporary with Aublet treated his 208 genera.Scopoli, in his /atroductio ad Historiam Naturalem (1777), and Schreber, in the two-volume eighth edition of Linnaeus's Genera Plantarum (1789, 1791), proposed many new generic names as replacements for names of Aublet that they considered "vulgar or barbarous" (Stafleu, 1971).Although neither Scopoli nor Schreber treated all of Aublet's genera, A. L. de Jussieu, another contemporary botanist, reviewed all 208 generic names in his Genera Plantarum (1789) and placed nearly all of them within his system of natural families.Many additional replacement names for Aublet's taxa were provided by Necker in his three-volume E/ementa Botanica (1790).Necker's names are not treated in this paper since his "species naturalis'' are considered to be monomial names for species and therefore not validly published (Stafleu & Cowan, 1981).The Sydney Code (Voss ef al., 1983) supports this view of the nomenclatural status of Necker's names under Article 20.4(b).In addition to publishing the 208 generic names in his Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Francoise, Aublet validated the pre-Linnaean name Clompanus of Rumphius, by describing a second species under that genus.The nomenclatural and taxonomic problems associated with Clompanus [Rumph.]Aublet are presently being studied by Geesink (pers.comm.).Taste | presents Aublet's 208 generic names in alphabetical order; lists their treatment according to Scopoli (1777), Schreber (1789, 1791), and Jussieu (1789); and gives their current disposition as presented by Howard (1983).Modifications or explanations are added where needed.Footnotes supply any additional nomenclatural or taxonomic information necessaryTaBLe 2 provides an index by entry number to all of the generic names
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