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class=623463118-14092006>So do I (not to be disloyal to my own institution's
database!). Just to clarify, though, both of these databases are primarily
useful for checking the spelling of an epithet, who the authority was,
etc. They don't usually tell you which is the right name to use.
Tropicos tries to do a good job of indicating synonymy, but it can never be
perfectly complete or timely, and of course it has to accept someone's taxonomic
opinion, so for example, it might list two different species when another
authority would lump them into one. IPNI and its included databases
are markedly worse for that purpose. I have encountered a number of
instances where a name was indicated to be synonymous with some other name
but it in fact is not; this may have been someone's opinion 100 years ago.
You also find that the included databases sometimes disagree on the
authority's abbreviation or even identity; then you may have to go to more
detailed literature.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=623463118-14092006>Wendy Applequist</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org
[mailto:mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Amanda
Koch<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:26 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [MPWG] more on Latin
nomenclature<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In addition to Mobot’s
Tropicos website, I have also always double-checked using <A
href="http://www.ipni.org/">www.ipni.org</A> (international plant name index) to
compare results. Sometimes there are discrepancies, so it’s nice to check
both…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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