Nomen illegitimum (Latin for illegitimate name) is a technical term used mainly in botany. It is usually abbreviated as nom. illeg. Although the International...

errata) - a name given in error nomen illegitimum (nom. illeg.; plural: nomina illegitima) – an illegitimate name nomen invalidum (nom. inval.; plural:...

from an unpublished description by Louis Claude Richard, but is a nomen illegitimum because the name was already in use for a different species (Eucalyptus...

species was changed in 2012 as Impatiens ecalcarata was found to be nomen illegitimum. NatureServe (1 September 2023). "Impatiens ecornuta". NatureServe...

Plant Taxonomy. Crosby, Marshall R. (1972). "An example of a "nomen rejiciendum et illegitimum"". Taxon. 21 (1): 205–209. doi:10.2307/1219271. JSTOR 1219271...

or nom. rej.; a later homonym of a validly published name is a nomen illegitimum or nom. illeg.; for a full list refer to the International Code of Nomenclature...

plum, Ferdinand Mueller, who had originally given the species the nomen illegitimum (illegitimate name), Terminalia edulis. The tree is widespread throughout...

species the name Eucalyptus rostrata but the name was illegitimate (a nomen illegitimum) because it had already been applied by Cavanilles to a different...

are frequently inconstant." However, the name C. heterophylla was a nomen illegitimum, because it had already been applied in 1824 by William Roxburgh to...

Legitimate theater Legitimation Legitime Legitimists (disambiguation) Nomen illegitimum in botany is a valid published name that contravenes the international...

description of E. cladocalyx. Eucalyptus corynocalyx is therefore a nomen illegitimum and a synonym of E. cladocalyx. The specific epithet is taken from...

Reuss, 1935 Pelias sudetica steinii forma emarcata A.F. Reuss, 1937 (nomen illegitimum) Vipera (Vipera) berus berus — Obst, 1983 Vipera berus forma brunneomarcata...

botanical name Ficus australis in Species Plantarum, but this is a nomen illegitimum as the species already had a validly published name. Italian botanist...

name he gave is therefore a heterotypic posterior homonym and thus nomen illegitimum. Wright's name becomes the earliest correct name for the species,...

better known than the correct name, that a substitution was made. nomen illegitimum A name that is either superfluous at its time of publication because...

"Ipomoea jalapa" as used by Nuttall and Cox is considered illegitimate (nomen illegitimum = illegitimate name) because the valid publication of the name was...

older generic name Acanthodium Miller 1868. However, Acanthodium is a nomen illegitimum as a later homonym of Angiosperm genus name Acanthodium Delile 1813...

latastei Boscá, 1879 Vipera berus aspis var. latastei — Camerano, 1889 (nomen illegitimum) Vipera latastii [sic] Boulenger, 1896 Vipera latasti [sic] — Mertens...

latifolia, a name that had been previously used 1803 and so it was Nomen illegitimum. Therefore the descirition and naming of the species by Robert Everard...

signatus (Gmelin, 1789) Synonyms Testudo signata Walbaum, 1782: 120 (nomen illegitimum) Testudo signata Gmelin, 1789: 1043 Testudo cafra Daudin, 1801: 291...

previously been described that are now either regarded as illegitimate (nomen illegitimum) or as synonyms of Castilleja integra. These include Castilleja angustifolia...

synonymy Testudo mydas Linnaeus, 1758 Testudo macropus Walbaum, 1782 (nomen illegitimum) Testudo viridis Schneider, 1783 Testudo japonica Thunberg, 1787 Testudo...

fossil species by John Strong Newberry in 1895 and was therefore a nomen illegitimum. In 1991, Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill changed the name to E. parvula...

described this taxon as Phalaenopsis × hebe, which however was a Nomen illegitimum and thus not accepted. "Phalaenopsis × rolfeana H.R.Sweet | Plants...

Ebenus L., a genus already named in the family Fabaceae, and is thus nomen illegitimum. The plant that Kuntze had named Ebenus was accordingly reassigned...

vulgaris Hack. Anthistiria vulgaris var. imberbis (Retz.) Hack. [[Nomen illegitimum}nom. illeg.]] Themeda arguens subvar. imberbis (Retz.) Roberty Themeda...

Testudo denticulata Linneasus 1766 Testudo tabulata Walbaum, 1782(nomen illegitimum) Testudo tessellata Schneider, 1792 Testudo tabulata Schoepff, 1793...

Edwards & Nozaic in 2006. Later, it was discovered that this was a Nomen illegitimum, as the name was preoccupied by the French fossil waterlily Nymphaea...

by Alexander Francisco Rojas Alvarado in 2001. However, this was a Nomen illegitimum. Therefore, it was later published as Cyathea rojasiana Lehnert by...

had already been used for a different species, Bentham's name was a Nomen illegitimum. In a 2019 paper in the journal Nuytsia, Barbara Lynette Rye and Terry...