Well, the congress was held in Australia, a fitting place in which to announce Acacia as the primary genus. It's name (from 1754) does at least precede Senegalia and Racosperma by many years. Andrew There is a lot more to stimulate you on the website of last month's International Botanical Congress at http://www.ibc2011.com/. I recommend the program and the abstracts. Amid the blitherers there are thinkers; one can also recognize trends, fads, cabals, life forms reporting in from outer space and what may be pure static. If possible even more gripping is the final summary of proposals to amend the code for naming plants, which appeared in the journal Taxon for February 2011: http://botanik.univie.ac.at/iapt/downloads/… . If you need a good laugh -- or a good cry -- read Article 51, on what shall become of the polyphyletic genus Acacia. Much more has been published on this topic but I will spare you. xo to all Paige ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pacific Rim" <paige@hillkeep.ca> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:01 PM Subject: Nomenclature changes, was Publishing taxa in Latin and in print > The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature is no more. Instead we > have > the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. >