Glossary

Unit of classification for hybrids, e.g. nothospecies or nothogenus.  

Hybrid species produced by crossing two species from the same genus, indicated by multiplication sign before the species epithet (e.g. ...

Hybrid genus produced by crossing (plants from) two different genera, indicated by a multiplication sign before the name (e.g. x ...

With a nick or cut from an otherwise entire edge. Having a notch at the point of attachment to the ...

With spots or lines, these often coloured.  

(Of orchids) flowers lacking the usual twist of the stem or pedicel attached to the ovary that positions the lip ...

The usage or application of names in plant taxonomy. A system or set of names or designations used in classifying ...

(In nomenclature) the element (specimen or illustration) with which the name of the taxon is permanently associated.  

(In nomenclature) superfluous name, a name that when first validly published was applied by its author to a taxon circumscribed ...

(In nomenclature) name or epithet to be rejected, if applied it would cause a disadvantageous nomenclatural change. Rejected names are ...