Plant nomenclature, or the naming of plants, has been around since 1753, and started with a Swedish botanist named Carl Von Linne. Latin names were given at the time as an internationally understood ...

Since the mid-1700s, researchers have classified life on Earth with scientific names, a two-word moniker like Homo sapiens. But some of these names are weighed down by problematic histories and ...

AUTHORS OF PLANT NAMES : A LIST OF AUTHORS OF SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF PLANTS WITH RECOMMENDED STANDARD FORMS OF THEIR NAMES INCLUDING ABBREVIATIONS EDITED BY RK BRUMMITT AND CE POWELL PRINCIPAL COMPILERS: ...

Since the mid-1700s, researchers have classified life with scientific names. But some of them have problematic histories and connotations. The botanical community is trying to tackle this issue. Since ...