Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:47:04 From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2694$foo@default> Subject: Re: plant name registration
Dear Andrew,
> With this in mind, I assume you or some one with ICPS will send
> out a memo detailing the protocal for registering a plant name? Something
> published in CPN I think would be best, but also up here and maybe on the
> FAQ for those that do not recieve CPN. I hope it will be written in
> simple terms.
This has been detailed to some degree in CPN already. Please check
out CPN 27:27-28 (1998).
The data we need for registration are, essentially:
1. the *name* of the cultivar, cultivar group, or chimaera 2. the
*originator* (if the plant was produced artificially) and/or
the *introducer* (if it was brought into cultivation from a specified
source); both with the date (at least the year) of
production/introduction
3. the *nominant* (the one/s who coined the name) 4. the *registrant*
(the one/s whe sent all the data to the ICPS) 5. copies of *previous
descriptions* (if the plant or group was
described in a previously published source; cf. 9.)
6. the *original name* using the symbols of the original language if
the name is transliterated from a language not using the Latin
alphabet (e.g. Russian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese)
7. data on any *patents or plant breeders' rights* if such exist 8. data
on *awards* received together with the awarding event and
awarding body if such were won
9. a detailed *description* mentioning all differences to previously
described cultivars/chimaeras/cultivar groups (colours should be
described by reference to the RHS colour chart); for cultivar groups
additionally a list of all described cultivars/chimaeras that belong
to the cultivar group; this is not required if a previous description
does exist (cf. 5.)
10.a high quality colour *photograph* that may be published by the
ICPS without reservation (except for adequate credits, of course),
showing all diagnostic features
11.the preferred (or exclusive) method of *propagation* 12.the
*etymology* (derivation) of the name
Names must be formed according to the ICNCP, the most recent edition
of which is: Trehane, P., Brickell, C.D., Baum, B.R., Hetterscheid,
W.L.A., Leslie, A.C., McNeill, J., Spongberg, S.A., and Vrugtman, F.
(eds.), International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants,
Adopted by the International Commission for the Nomenclature of
Cultivated Plants, Regnum Vegetabile 133. Quarterjack Publishing,
Wimborne, UK, ISBN 0-948117-01-X
> As it happens I have at least three names I would like to
> register. The plants are all at least 3-4 years old and getting quite
> large now. I can sacrifice one of each for a holotype, yes I want to
> register the entire seedling lot in Latin.
If you have artificially produced hybrids of parents that do not
occur together in nature, I would not recommend giving them Latin
names. Rather select the best plants, name them as cultivars, and
group them together in cultivar groups defined by the original
crosses. This is what will be registered by the ICPS.
Protologues of taxa (naturally occurring plants to receive Latin
names) may be published in CPN. These names will be registered by the
IAPT, with which CPN is accredited.
> I can also photograph the plants.
Please do so.
> Where do I send the holotype?
You can deposit dried specimens of cultivated plants to be registered
with the ICPS at any major Herbarium listed in the Index Herbariorum
BUT NOTE: Although the ICNCP recommends dried specimens as standard
specimens of cultivated plants, we have decided to require *colour
photographs* instead (or at least in addition) for cultivated
carnivorous plants (cf. point 10. above!), because many cp cultivars
are colour forms that cannot be compared adequately with dried
specimens. The standard photographs will appear in the online version
of the International Register of Cultivated Carnivorous Plants
(IRCCP). It is not clear yet if we will be able to publish them also
in the printed version of the IRCCP. Of all cultivars that will be
registered by us in the future, we will publish (in CPN) either the
standard photograph itself or a reference to a publication of the
standard photograph.
> What do I actually do with it to prepare it? In other words, step
> by step, I have plants that need thier names registered, what do I
> do please?
You should obtain a copy of the ICNCP. This includes all necessary
rules and a quick guide to correct cultivated plant naming. In your
particular case, I would recommend naming selected individuals or
clones as cultivars and establishing cultivar groups to accomodate
cultivars of equal parentage in them.
Please note that registration of names does not grant any patents
or plant breeders' rights, which are the domain of national
legislation. The first registered name for a given cultivated plant
must, however, be used by all who deal with the same plant (i.e. all
plants that correspond to the description and standard in the IRCCP).
Thus, registration warrants unambiguous naming of the plants (and
priority of the first name registered for them).
Kind regards
Jan
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