HORTAX NEWS

An occasional newsletter from
The Horticultural Taxonomy Group (HORTAX)
 

Volume 1, Part 4 - 29 April 1998

HORTAX NEWS is published by Piers Trehane
on behalf of The Horticultural Taxonomy Group (HORTAX)
 

Contents:

• Announcing: International Association for Cultivated Plant Taxonomy (IACPT) - Piers Trehane
• Draft BioCode - John McNeill
• Directory of International Registration Authorities
• New Daffodil Register
• Electronic Nomenclatural filter
• Third International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants
  • Provisional scientific programme
• Yes, we need the term "culton"! - Wilbert Hetterscheid
• A comment on the culton concept - Timothy Walters
• Culton: a useful term, questionably argued - John McNeill
• Registration of plant names - test and trial phase - IAPT
• Using colour charts - Diana Miller
• Proposals for amendments to the Code - Piers Trehane
• Proposals to amend the Code (1) - Staff from RHS, Wisley, UK
• Proposals to amend the Code (2) - Nomenclature Committee, VKC, The Netherlands
• A note on transliteration - Piers Trehane

© 1998 The Horticultural Taxonomy Group

All correspondence should be addressed to the Editor,
Piers Trehane
e-mail: piers@indhort.demon.co.uk

The members of HORTAX would like to thank the Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust for its continuing support in sponsoring this newsletter.

The Editor invites any contribution from the readership on any matter concerning the nomenclature of cultivated plants, especially with reference to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants - 1995.