Emending Authors
As described in Article 47 of the botanical Code, on occasion either the diagnostic characters or the circumscription of a taxon may be altered ("emended") sufficiently that the attribution of the name to the original taxonomic concept as named would no longer be appropriate. In these cases a taxonomic statement to this effect would normally be appended to the original authorship using the abbreviation "emend." (for emendavit), as per these examples given in the Code:
- Phyllanthus L. emend. Müll. Arg
- Globularia cordifolia L. excl. var. (emend. Lam.).
(In the second example, "excl. var.", abbr. for exclusis varietatibus, indicates that this taxonomic concept excludes varieties which other workers have subsequently included).
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