User talk:Birdfern

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Again, welcome! Gabe Iglesia (talk) 20:58, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Corymbia citriodora

Hello Bidfern,

Thanks for your interest in Corymbia citriodora. I've made some edits to the article after you, and I want to explain them.

1. "(classified as Eucalyptus citriodora until 1995)"; It's very common for plant names that have been used for a long time to change as the result of taxonomic studies like those of Hill and Johnson (Telopea 1995). In fact, "classified as Eucalyptus... until 1995" could be applied to all the corymbias. Yesterday I created an article about Pultenaea sericea that had been known as Pultenaea paleacea from 1864 until 1995. The day before I added Gompholobium simplicifolium that was classified as Burtonia simplicifolium from 1896 to 1987. So the best place to read about earlier names is the the synonyms list.
2. Common names. I think you are correct in adding that "lemon eucalyptus" is "pretty much the exclusively-used name in the commercial sphere" as the source of "lemon eucalyptus oil" but I can't find that name in any botanical source. I can find a source that lists seven common names, but "lemon eucalyptus" is not one of them. I will add a list of all eight common names under the "Taxonomy and naming" section.

That said, there are other statements in the article that are incorrect or uncited. I apologise for not having cleaned them up when I expanded the article in February last year. I'm working on it now. Gderrin (talk) 22:19, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case you're interested .... In the botanical world, some botanists are labelled "splitters" and others as "clumpers". Obviously, Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson (perhaps undeservedly) are known by the former moniker, but others, like Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele as the second, because they moved all the Dryandra species into Banksia. Both changes produced considerable heat, but gradually the changes have been accepted, including by authorities like the Australian Plant Census and Plants of the World Online. Gderrin (talk) 01:38, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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