Abstrakt
The present rules in the Code on the gender of generic names have their origin in Art. 76 of the Berlin Code (Greuter & al. in Regnum Veg. 118. 1988), resulting from a proposal by a Special Committee on Orthography to replace the previous recommendations on the appropriate gender for such names (Demoulin & Nicolson in Taxon 35: 794-803. 1986).