Claim · model-written summary
Rejection of the generic name Colax is recommended.
- Outcome
- Rejection of the generic namee3
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Verbatim
e3“Rejection of the generic name Colax is recommended”
Title
Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 77
Wendy L. Applequist Taxon 2026. doi:10.1002/tax.70118
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- Recommendation Conservation of six generic names is recommended.
- Recommendation Conservation of three generic names is not recommended.
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- Recommendation Conservation of Delphinium candelabrum, Elaphoglossum metallicum, Erythroxylum suberosum, Ficus wassa, Ficus botryocarpa and Gymnosporia royleana is recommended.
- Recommendation Conservation of Hypericum olympicum and other listed species names is recommended.
- Recommendation Conservation of three species names is not recommended.
- Recommendation Rejection of the first 11 of 21 listed species names is recommended.
- Recommendation Rejection of the remaining 10 of 21 listed species names is recommended.
- Recommendation Rejection of seven species names is not recommended.
- Recommendation Ixora lobbii should be treated as validly published.
- Recommendation Larix archangelica and Larix dahurica should be treated as not validly published.
- Recommendation No recommendation is considered necessary to treat Shorea longisperma as validly published.
- Recommendation Cryptanthela and Cryptanthella, Deppea and Deppia, and Hieracium greenei and H. greenii should be treated as homonyms.
- Recommendation The Committee recommends against binding decisions on Blackiella and Blakiella and related pairs.