Talk:Bohlenia

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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 05:15, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

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Fossil Bohlenia americana leaflets

• ... that the fossil soapberry Bohlenia (pictured) was named for Oregon's 1972 "biology teacher of the year"?

• Source: Wolfe and Wehr 1987 pg19 - Derivation of name. This genus is named for Anne Bohlen of Portland, Oreg. Miss Bohlen is an inspiring teacher in biology, as evidenced by her being named Oregon's High School Biology Teacher of the Year. She was also instrumental in guiding and encouraging the senior author's early training. The Oregonian on Dec. 19, 2006. obituaries - Anne Bohlen Anne was honored by being named Oregon's Biology Teacher of the Year in 1972. One of her students went on to study at Harvard... In honor of his teacher, Anne Bohlen, who encouraged him when he was a student at Franklin High School, he named the species Bohlenia Americana.

• • ALT1: ... that the fossil soapberry Bohlenia (pictured) had its seeds taken away? Source: McClain, A. M.; Manchester, S. R. (2001) Previous nomenclature "Because fossil Dipteronia fruits have never been found attached to any type of foliage, we restrict the name Bohlenia americana to the foliage upon which it is based." " Wolfe and Wehr (1987) established the new combination Bohlenia insignis (Lesquereux) Wolfe & Wehr for this species. In our opinion, the name Bohlenia should be applied exclusively to foliage."
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Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 370 past nominations.

Kevmin § 13:50, 12 June 2025 (UTC).

Interesting detailed article, on plenty of fine sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I prefer the original because the ALT looks like rather for insiders, - very cryptic to others. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:37, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

adding: I suggest to link soapberry. The image is licensed but a hard to understand in stamp size. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

"Matronym"

@Kevmin, you reverted this edit of mine with the summary "matronym is a regularly used term for scientific etymologies in the papers themselves". I've checked several dictionaries and I don't see this use of "matronym" supported at all; many, such as the OED and Merriam-Webster, do not contain "matronym" alone, and define "matronymic" as (from MW) "a name derived from that of the mother or a maternal ancestor". I've also now checked the sources cited after this sentence, such as the Wolfe obituary and this report , and don't see "matronym" mentioned either. Could you please specify which papers support this use of the word?

In the meantime, you may wish to restore the apostrophe in "Wolfes", which your revert also removed. Toadspike [Talk] 14:42, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

@Toadspike: Matronym has a specific usage in scientific biology, with regards to etymology explanation. When describing a new species may modern authors will use the term (or patronym) while noting why they chose to name a species for a specific person. See here, here, here (for a fictional caracter), and here for 6 patronyms in 1 paper.--Kevmin § 14:51, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the explanation and the sources. If you can find a secondary source describing this practice it may be a good idea to add it to the Matronymic article, to which this article currently links. Since that article currently doesn't describe this practice I'm not sure the link is helpful; it only served to confuse me.

Also, thanks for fixing the apostrophe again. Toadspike [Talk] 14:59, 7 July 2025 (UTC)