Talk:Flora of Scotland

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[edit] Fungi

I am aware of the issues, and there is a case to be be made for excluding fungi. However, Flora of Australia (which is A class, not an FA) includes them. There seem to be very few decent 'Flora' articles to cite as precedent. Ben MacDui^Talk/Walk 18:52, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I'd have thought this was straightforward ... fungi are non-plants just like birds, beetles, Volkswagens and all sorts of other things which we don't include. This was not the prevailing belief for many centuries, sure, but we know better now. The article Earth, for example, says "The Earth's shape is very close to an oblate spheroid" rather than "the earth is flat" :-) SP-KP (talk) 21:04, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. I imagined the Aussies were following some kind of precedent but the subject has very little regional or national coverage. I can see why - it is going to be very difficult to expand the article into one that is more than just a list in prose form. I will remove the fungal references. Any other suggestions welcome. Ben MacDui^Talk/Walk 08:14, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Latin names

At present the usage is not completely consistent, but the general intention is to have them appear in brackets after the common name where there is either a red link or a link to an aspecific genera, e.g. Scots Lovage (Ligusticum scoticum), which currently links only to 'Ligusticum'. Ben MacDui^Talk/Walk 20:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)