Talk:List of plant family names with etymologies

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Notes

Some of the text is from the copyleft database of plant family names at POWO (http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org); some is my translation from Lotte Burkhardt's copyleft book, in pdf form at https://www.bgbm.org/en/bgbm-press/index-eponymic-plant-names-extended-edition. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
428 rows. - Dank (push to talk) 20:03, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This version of the page gives the 3 original sources in table format. - Dank (push to talk) 12:41, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
User:Johnboddie selected a lot of the images, here. - Dank (push to talk) 02:40, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Spore-bearing families are omitted to stay in sync with the other lists in the "See also" section, and because there are significant differences of opinion (in particular at PotW and POWO) about the taxonomy for spore-bearing families. - Dank (push to talk) 02:46, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Quick explanation of the edit I just made: the existing wording was too easy to misinterpret as "a committee got together in 2017 and decided that family names should end in -aceae." Family names end that way in 2022 because they have ended that way for a couple of centuries, not because it was decided by a committee. (There was another problem too, concerning the type genus; both problems were resolved by my edit, hopefully.) Further edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 18:38, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Plants of the World

This book is not a reliable source for etymologies. The authors evidently don't know Greek, and their etymons are often wrong. Michel Chauvet (talk) 17:14, 23 May 2023 (UTC).[reply]

I see you've made some edits to the English Wikipedia over the years, and that you have plenty of experience with botany and etymology. I'm open to discussing this. I asked around at the talk page of the plants wikiproject several years ago about which sources they prefer for answering these questions, and I used only those sources for etymology in this list. But I'm sure I've made mistakes, and I tended to give very short answers ... so the problem might not be that the botanists are wrong, it might be that I didn't report everything the botanists said. If you'll tell me which source you used for the changes you just made, I'll go ask again over at the plants wikiproject about which sources they prefer (including whatever sources you're using). - Dank (push to talk) 17:43, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]