Forgive me if I am wrong, but i remember that on my taxonomy classes, it was told me that plant names dedicated to a female end with "ae" and those dedicated to males with the "ii" or "i" termination in the species epithet. Like Dendrobium victoriae-reginae after the Queen Victoria, Mepenthes jacquelinae after Jacqueline Clarke, Aechmea mariae-reginae, etc. But I could be wrong... And what about Haemanthuis bakerae? was it also named after a lady? --- On Mon, 28/6/10, christopherwhitehouse@rhs.org.uk <christopherwhitehouse@rhs.org.uk> wrote: > From: christopherwhitehouse@rhs.org.uk <christopherwhitehouse@rhs.org.uk> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Haemanthus and Scadoxus Culture > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Date: Monday, 28 June, 2010, 16:56 > > >The correct spelling for the Scadoxus multiflorus > subspecies is actually >katharinea, named after Katharine > Saunders .... Not a lot of people know >that. > > Strictly speaking the spelling would need to be katherineae > if that was the case, but as the name Katherine is derived > from the Greek, it is probably fine to decline it and use > katherinae (which is how Baker originally spelt it). > It is one of those areas that the Botanical Code is less > than clear on and the arguments either way could probably go > on and on. I think as the spelling has always been > known as katherinae and the correct way is debatable, we > should probably stick with that. > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >