Table 4.

Some Basic Rules for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants

Culton: a systematic group of cultivated plants

Cultivar: a cultivated variety, uniform and stable in its characters

Group: an assemblage of similar cultivars on the basis of defined characters

The name of a cultivar or Group is the combination of the genus, or lower taxon to which it is assigned, with a cultivar or group epithet

The epithet can be a vernacular word of any language and should be not written in italics

The epithet is bounded by single quotation marks