animals). It also allows them to follow slightly different rules, e.g. animals can have the same genus and species name, e.g. Pica pica, but the ICNafp does not allow this.

History and scope

Botanical nomenclature has a long history, going back beyond the period when Latin was the scientific language throughout Europe, to Theophrastus (c. 370-287 BC), Dioscorides (c. 40 - 90 AD) and other Greek writers. Many of these

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