[Taxacom] Language tags for scientific names

[Adolf Ceska]

The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature is  clear about the names:

QUOTE
Principle V  Scientific names of taxonomic groups are treated as Latin
regardless of their derivation.
END-OF-QUOTE

E.g.,

Camassia quamash (species: Saalish Indian name)
Tsuga heterophylla (genus: Japanese name)
Svida sanguinea (genus: Czech name)

But also (hard to believe):
Botrychium yaaxudakeit Stensvold & Farrar (the elders of Alaska's Yakutat
Tlingit people chose this epithet)

Never mind, I am sure that the plants do not care about how they are called.


All the best,

Adolf

Adolf Ceska, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada