From BBC News:
The International Botany Congress has decided that Latin will no longer be the primary language for formally describing new species of plants.
Traditionally plants were officially recorded with a description written in Latin - often including new words coined by botanists which never existed in the classical language.
Click here to watch the report from BBC Newsnight.
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