Is Solanum fructu‐tecto validly published? Article 23 and epithets in the ablative case

Both botanical tradition and codes of nomenclature have held that specific epithets that are Latin phrases in the ablative case are unacceptable. Solanum fructu‐tecto, in Article 60 Example 41, has an epithet that is a phrase in the ablative case, so it too should be unacceptable. But because Article 23 now apparently prohibits only nomina specifica legitima (the polynomial phrase names, usually in the ablative case, used by Linnaeus and other early botanists), the status of Solanum fructu‐tecto and of other names with binomial epithets (Linnaeus's nomina trivialia) in the ablative case is unclear. The Code should return to tradition and prohibit specific epithets in the ablative case.