Many thanks Gurcharan ji for your response. I would wait patiently for any critical appreciation of your thoughts. Regards. Dinesh
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Sorry Dinesh ji, I could not reply earlier as I was travelling from > California to Delhi and could not access my account. I reached Delhi today. > > If one want to get confused, The plant list is the best place to visit. > But it can also be used for checking cross references. Best database to me > (in addition to GRIN) to rely are eFl China and Tropicos (whose records > The plant list uses by does not always follow) > > > Laurus cassia L. and Laurus cassia Nees & T Nees are synonyms, and latter > can't be basionym for any name, as it is a later homonym of former. Even > The Plant List and Tropicos agree with it (being synonym of Cinnamomum > cassia (L.) C. Presl (which without doubt is based on Laurus cassia L.) > > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-17806432 > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-17806432 > > Strangely no one lists Neolitsea cassia (L.) Kosterm and Cinnamomum > cassia (L.) Presl. as synonyms, but since basionym is same, they have to be. > > But then there is a big catch. GRIN considers Neolitsea zeylanica (Nees & > T Nees) Merr. (based on Litsea zeylanica Nees & T. Nees as synonym of > Cinnamomum cassia (L.) Nees, whereas both Fl. China, Revised Flora of > Ceylon and The Plant List consider as distinct taxa belonging to a separate > genera. > > I hope I am not wrong. > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Message from Dr Santhosh Kumar ji: >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> *Laurus cassia* L is a basyonym of *Neolitsea cassia* (L.) Kosterm. >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Many many thanks to him. >> >> >> With this as fact, there seems to be some confusion in the past because >> of which: >> *Laurus cassia *L. is a synonym of *Cinnamomum cassia* (Nees & T.Nees) >> J.Presl ... The Plants >> List<http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-17805758> >> >> And just a few minutes back stumbled on this finding >> *Laurus cassia* Nees & T. Nees is a synonym of *Cinnamomum cassia* (L.) >> C. Presl ... The Plants List >> >> >> Thus coincidentally, there are two identities of *Laurus cassia *as well >> as* **Cinnamomum cassia. >> * >> * >> >> * >> I now believe mentions of *Laurus cassia *in the online dictionaries and >> old literature must be *L. cassia* Nees & T. Nees ... syn. of *Cinnamomum >> cassia* (L.) C. Presl - therefore are not related to *Neolitsea cassia*(L.) >> Kosterm. >> >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Dear friends, >>> My query stems from findings about synonymy of *Neolitsea cassia* - >>> while intending to gather its common names in regional languages of India. >>> >>> My findings: >>> At The Plants List >>> <http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-50148283>(2010). Version 1 - >>> *Neolitsea cassia* (L.) Kosterm. ... no synonyms recorded >>> At NPGS / GRIN<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?413303>- >>> *Neolitsea cassia* (L.) Kosterm. ... synonyms: *Laurus cassia* L. (* >>> basionym*) • *Litsea zeylanica* Nees & T. Nees • *Neolitsea zeylanica*(Nees >>> & T. Nees) Merr. >>> >>> >>> *Neolitsea cassia* seems to be comparatively less discussed on internet >>> in context of common names; and hardly in online dictionaries. BUT *Laurus >>> cassia* has several entries in online dictionaries of South Asia, >>> especially in Sanskrit. >>> >>> The confusion: >>> *Would like to know which of the following is true:* >>> 1) *Laurus cassia* L. is basionym of *Neolitsea cassia* (L.) Kosterm. >>> 2) *Laurus cassia* L. is synonym of *Cinnamomum cassia* (Nees & T.Nees) >>> J.Presl >>> >>> OR please help me with any other clarification. >>> >>> >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > --
