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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thomasdonegan" data-source="post: 3086492" data-attributes="member: 5190">Laurent, you make some good points, but I think these authors are correct that art 45.6.4 is relevant."The rank denoted by a species-group name following a binomen is subspecific, except that...45.6.4. it is subspecific if first published before 1961 and its author expressly used one of the terms "variety" or "form" (including use of the terms "var.", "forma", "v." and "f."), unless its author also expressly gave it infrasubspecific rank, or the content of the work unambiguously reveals that the name was proposed for an infrasubspecific entity, in which case it is infrasubspecific [see also Art. 45.6.1]; except that..."So you have to "unambiguously" reveal that this was not intended to be a name where the name follows "var." and the binomial, as here.  That seems to be quite a high standard where the text could be interpreted as a geographical name in Latin or as a Linnean name.In your other Partridge example where two words (=names?) follow the word "var." then Art 45.5 states that: "A fourth name published as an addition to a trinomen automatically denotes an infrasubspecific entity (however an interpolated species-group name [Art. 6.2] is not regarded as an addition to a trinomen)."I don't disagree there are two interpretations here, but I tend to prefer Dickinson et alia's.</blockquote>