Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project

植物和动物的学名最好能在多年的使用中保持稳定，从而作为生物世界知识的高效和有效的索引工具。争议确实不时出现，但这些争议主要是通过应用所谓的“类型”方法来解决的，即将博物馆收藏的特定标本识别为特定名称的类型，为每个已发表的学名。因此，关于名称适用性的问题或混淆可以通过参考实际标本来解决。遗憾的是，尽管林奈的出版物被视为动植物物种科学命名的普遍起点，但在卡尔·林奈所命名的8900种植物物种和变种中，大多数都没有明确的固定类型标本。林奈植物名称类型学项目旨在对林奈（1707-1778）出版的所有植物名称的类型学（分配类型标本）进行全面评估。Drs。波特·洛瑞和詹姆斯·Reveal以及一名博士后助理将与大英博物馆（自然历史）的查尔斯·贾维斯博士合作，林奈的藏品和图书馆现在就存放在那里。结果将在一个带注释的目录中发表，该目录还将包含详细的分类注释和所有相关命名文献的完整引用。结果也将纳入为北美植物项目和其他植物企业维持的计算机数据库。这将为这些重要和广泛使用的植物名称（其中许多适用于作物植物和其他具有经济意义的物种）的一致和稳定应用奠定基础，并将为所有必须处理林奈物种名称的植物学家提供必要的参考。

The scientific names of plants and animals ideally remain stable in usage over the years, and thus serve as efficient and effective indexing devices for knowledge of the biological world. Disputes do arise from time to time, but these are settled largely through the application of the so-called "type" method, the identification of a particular specimen in a museum collection as the type of a particular name, for each and every published scientific name. Question or confusion about the applicability of a name can thus be resolved by reference to an actual specimen. For the majority of Carl Linnaeus's 8,900 named species and varieties of plants, unfortunately, there are no clearly fixed type specimens, despite the importance accorded Linnaeus's publications as the universal starting-point for scientific naming of plant and animal species. The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project is designed to provide a thorough assessment of the typification (assignment of type specimens) of all of the plant names published by Linnaeus (1707-1778). Drs. Porter Lowry and James Reveal and a post- doctoral associate will work with Dr. Charles Jarvis of the British Museum (Natural History) where Linnaeus's collections and library now reside. The results will be published in an annotated catalogue that will also contain detailed taxonomic notes and the complete citation of all relevant nomenclatural literature. Results will also be incorporated into computer databases maintained for the Flora North America project and other floristic enterprises. This will establish a basis for the consistent and stable application of these important and widely used plant names, many of which apply to crop plants and other economically significant species, and will serve as an essential reference for all botanists who must deal with Linnaean species names.