Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain – This year, Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country, has the honour of being the European Green Capital 2012 – a title it has gained, in large part, thanks to the ...

The week-long discussions and decisions of the Nomenclature Section of the XVIII International Botanical Congress took place in Melbourne, Australia in July 2011. This meeting is held every six years ...

The International Botanical Congress in Melbourne approved changes to the way scientists name new plants, algae, and fungi. To demonstrate the efficiency of electronic publishing, the open access ...

The language of gardening can sometimes seem confusing. That is because so much of it is Latin. Some of it is Latinized Greek, or Latinized names of botanists. Tony Tomeo can be contacted at tonytomeo ...

Four new neotropical plant species in the hyperdiverse genus Solanum (Solanaceae), which includes plants as diverse as the deadly nightshade as well as the more palatable tomato, have been published ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A new genus, Xenophyllum, is described, which consists of 21 species extracted from Werneria s.l. (Compositae: Senecioneae). All members of ...

The sero populi have spoken. Latin, the long-dead language that has ruled the plant world for centuries, isn’t widely understood even by serious plant people. “I’ve published mistakes in Latin. Nobody ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A new species of the genus Miconia sect. Cremanium from highland "campo rupestre" vegetation of the Serra da Canastra National Park, S&$00E3;o ...

PROFESSOR WILLIAM STEARN, who has died aged 90, was one of Britain's most eminent botanists; his contribution to his subject was once compared to that of Robert Brown, Darwin and the Hookers. During a ...

THE letter from Mr. R. A. Inglis in NATURE of Feb. 8, p. 204, calls for a reply, and the following is sent on behalf of the British Sub-Committee on Nomenclature, which has since 1923 been engaged in ...

AN event of considerable importance to botanists is the publication of a new code of botanical nomenclature, prepared by a commission appointed by the Botanical Club of the American Association for ...