Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project

植物和动物的学名理想地保留下来， 多年来使用稳定，因此可以有效地 生物世界知识的有效索引装置。 争端确实不时出现，但这些都得到了解决 主要是通过应用所谓的“类型”方法， 博物馆中某一特定标本的鉴定 集合作为特定名称的类型，对于每个 公布的科学名称。 关于的疑问或困惑 因此，名称的适用性可以通过引用 真正的标本 对于卡尔·林奈的8,900名命名的大多数人来说， 植物的种类和品种，不幸的是，没有 明确固定的模式标本，尽管重视给予 林奈的出版物作为普遍的起点， 植物和动物物种的科学命名。 林奈植物名称类型化项目旨在 提供一个全面的评估的典型化（分配的 林奈发表的所有植物名称的模式标本） （1707-1778）。 波特·洛瑞博士和詹姆斯·瑞维尔博士 博士助理将与查尔斯贾维斯博士的工作， 大英博物馆（自然历史），林奈的收藏品和 图书馆现居。 结果将发表在 注释目录，还将包含详细的分类 注释和所有相关术语的完整引用 文学 结果也将被纳入计算机 为北美植物群项目维护的数据库， 其他花卉企业。 这将为 这些重要和广泛的应用程序的一致性和稳定性 使用的植物名称，其中许多适用于作物植物和其他 经济上重要的物种，并将作为一个重要的 供所有必须处理林奈物种的植物学家参考 名字

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.