Homonym (botany)
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In botanical nomenclature, a homonym is a botanical name that is identical in spelling to another botanical name, when these names apply to different taxa. Only the first published of two or more homonyms is to be used: a later homonym is "illegitimate" and is not to be used unless conserved.
- Example: the later homonym Myroxylon L.f. (1782), in the Leguminosae, is conserved against the earlier homonym Myroxylon J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (1775), in the Flacourtiaceae.
