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Robert W. Kiger and James L. Reveal, a Comprehensive Scheme HUNTIA A Journal of Botanical History VolUme 11 NUmBer 1 2000 Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Carnegie mellon University Pittsburgh Huntia publishes articles on all aspects of the his- tory of botany and is published irregularly in one or more numbers per volume of approximately 200 pages by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890. editor Scarlett T. Townsend Book reviews and Announcements editor Charlotte A. Tancin Associate editors Gavin D. r. Bridson T. D. Jacobsen Angela l. Todd Frederick H. Utech James J. White layout Lugene B. Bruno external contributions to Huntia are welcome. Please request our “Guidelines for Contributors” before submitting manuscripts for consideration. editorial correspondence should be directed to the editor. Books for announcement or review should be sent to the Book reviews and Announcements editor. Page charge is $50.00. The charges for up to five pages per year are waived for Hunt Institute Associates, who also may elect to receive Huntia as a benefit of membership; please contact the Institute for more information. Subscription rate is $60.00 per volume. orders for subscriptions and back issues should be sent to the Institute. Printed and bound by Allen Press, Inc., lawrence, Kansas. Copyright © 2000 by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation All rights reserved ISSN 0073-4071 Huntia 11(1) 2000 a comprehensive scheme for standardized abbreviation of usable plant-family names and type-based suprafamilial names Robert W. Kiger and James L. Reveal Abstract Code. the second set of elements is a list of We present a scheme of four-character abbreviations two-character rank-suffix abbreviations that for all 1527 properly usable plant-family names known can be appended to the abbreviations from to have been published through September 1999, and of the family-names suite to obtain unique six- two-character rank suffixes for coordinated abbreviation of type-based names at standard suprafamilial ranks. character abbreviations for type-based names at any standard rank above family. although use of the internet is burgeoning, Introduction and works disseminated electronically via telnet, this scheme provides a comprehensive basis FtP, Gopher, and/or WWW are accessible to an for standardized semi-mnemonic abbreviation of ever-increasing audience, still many researchers plant-family names and type-based suprafamilial and institutions around the world do not have names. it comprises two coordinated sets of convenient (or any) access to the internet. abbreviation elements. the first is a suite of thus, since this scheme should prove useful in a unique four-character abbreviations for all variety of non-electronic contexts and for local plant-family names that were validly published computer applications where internet access is through September 1999, are legitimate or lacking, we are publishing it in traditional form conserved, are potentially correct, and are as well as making it available electronically admissible. thus, this suite includes, so far as at http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBiO/fam/ known, every family name that, with citation famabbr.html or as an aSCII file on diskette of the correct authority, might properly be in Macintosh or DOS format (from RWK on used, and no others. all but nine of these request). family names are based on generic names, RWK has been responsible for devising the the exceptions being those sanctioned by the family-name abbreviations and for databasing the resulting set of names and abbreviations. JLR, this is a contribution of the Maryland drawing on his comprehensive investigations agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative with the late Ruurd Hoogland on the publication Extension Service with support from the and nomenclatural status of plant-family names, national agricultural Library. has been responsible for determining the names to be included in the family list; he also devised Hunt institute for Botanical Documentation, the set of rank-suffix abbreviations. We welcome Carnegie Mellon university, Pittsburgh Pa 15213 suggestions for improvement, directed to either u.S.a. Email: [email protected] [RWK] of us. all brickbats, however, should be aimed Department of Botany, university of Maryland, at JLR, who is the larger target. College Park, MD 20742 u.S.a. Email: [email protected] [JLR] 55 56 Huntia 11(1) 2000 Abbreviations for family names abietaceae ABiE abolbodaceae ABOL Whenever possible, for mnemonic utility, the abrophyllaceae ABRO abbreviation is the same as the first four letters acaciaceae ACaC of the family name’s stem. When the stem acalyphaceae ACaL acanthaceae ACAN comprises only three letters (e.g., Pin-aceae) acanthochlamydaceae ACAT or only two (e.g., Po-aceae), the abbreviation acarnaceae ACaR is filled out to four characters by adding one or aceraceae ACER two “+” symbols, as appropriate. these fillers achariaceae ACHa achatocarpaceae ACHt can be elided, with no loss of uniqueness, in achradaceae ACHR any contexts that do not require fixed-length achyranthaceae ACHY abbreviations, or they can be replaced by another acmopylaceae ACMO non-alphabetic character of choice. acoraceae ACOR acristaceae ACRi in 951 of the 1527 family names included acrostichaceae ACRO here, the first four characters (including any actaeaceae ACTA fillers) of their stems are unique sequences, which actinidiaceae ACTI have provided straightforward abbreviations. actiniopteridaceae ACtP actinostrobaceae ACtS Otherwise, when the first four letters of two or adenogrammaceae ADEn more stems are identical, the fourth and, in a adiantaceae ADIA very few cases, the third characters have been adoxaceae ADOX varied to obtain unique abbreviations. Each aegialitidaceae AEGi aegicerataceae AEGC abbreviation derived by such variation utilizes aegilopaceae AEGL letters found elsewhere within the stem, chosen aeginetiaceae AEGn for as much mnemonic value as the constraints aegiphilaceae AEGP allow. When a name that has been or is likely aesculaceae AESC aextoxicaceae AEXt to be considered a name in current use belongs agapanthaceae AGaP to a set that required such variation, it has had agavaceae AGaV priority for least variation. agdestidaceae AGDE the two-character suffix abbreviation agrimoniaceae AGRi agrostidaceae AGRO aC (for -aceae, indicating family rank) is ailanthaceae AILa implicitly appended to each of these four- aizoaceae AIZO character abbreviations of family names (more akaniaceae AKAN precisely, of their stems). in some contexts, alangiaceae ALAN alchemillaceae ALCH however, it may be desirable to render these two aldrovandaceae ALDR additional characters explicitly (see below under alismataceae ALiS Suprafamilial rank-suffix abbreviations). alliaceae ALLi the suite of four-character abbreviations allioniaceae ALLn allophylaceae ALLO appears below in two alphabetical sequences: by aloaceae ALO+ full family name, and by abbreviation.
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