Talk:Iris cedreti

A fact from Iris cedreti appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 November 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that no official conservation measures are in place to protect the critically endangered Iris cedreti, endemic to Lebanon?

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Correct name

All the most authoritative sources, including IPNI and WCSP, give the spelling of the epithet as cedreti. So I don't understand why the article claims this is wrong. Unless some argument is provided, I will move it.

As far as I can understand from the describer, the derivation is from cedrus (cedar) to cedretum, where the ending -etum is fairly standard for habitats or locations dominated by a species (c.f. "pinetum" for pines and other conifers – see Arboretum), then to cedreti, meaning "of (a) cedretum". An -ii ending would imply an origin from cedretius/um, but I can trace no such word. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:57, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

re - the name I was taking an average of the sources, most seemed to suggest cedretii - rhs, GRIN, pacific bulb society and several journal articles. But it seemed a lot of sources also use cedreti. I am unfussed in which takes precedence :) ! I could not find a definitive name ref or source so I 'generalised' with the name and added some other cedreti's to show usage.DavidAnstiss (talk) 16:46, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the namer and IPNI use cedreti, so this should be correct. Peter coxhead (talk) 13:16, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]