Talk:Käthe Hoffmann

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The article gives a figure of 354 species named based on doi:10.12705/642.4. However, this is a gross underestimate of the taxon names which have "K.Hoffm." as a primary author (i.e. not a transferring author or an "ex" author attributing the name to others). If you search IPNI for species in the genus Macaranga alone with "K.Hoffm." as an author, there are 60 such names (63 are returned but 3 are not primary or are a duplicate) – Search.

I downloaded a complete search from IPNI, and eliminated non-primary author cases and duplicates. My totals for the taxa named that include "K.Hoffm." as a primary author are:

Rank	Number of names
forma	10
genus	32
sect.	13
series	1
species	902
subsect.	1
subsp.	4
subtribe	1
var.	108
TOTAL	1072

The discrepancy can partly be explained by many of the names no longer being accepted, e.g. having been synonymized with other names, but I still find the difference between Lindon et al.'s 354 species and the 902 I can find in IPNI surprising.

Unfortunately, IPNI's advanced search doesn't allow you to select primary authors, so the data above is based on my personal analysis and so is WP:OR and can't be included in the article. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:16, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]