Garg Sir, Thank you for elaborating on two *K. integra*. Though The Plant List is latest (than the GRIN) yet it offers only one STAR for *K. spathulata* DC.!
Regards, surajit On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:21 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Surajit ji, for such a discussion looking at the accuracy of efi > site. More such discussions at efi are welcome. > I have gone through your details furnished. > > Regarding *"Why should we go for confusion when we have clear dictate > from GRIN and F. B. I.?"->* I think Both your FBI page as well as > GRIN did not mention *Kalanchoe integra* (Medikus) Kuntze anywhere > directly. Record of GRIN has been updated in 2005, while The Plant List was > released in 2010. > > *Kalanchoe > integra*<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?430177> auct. > (not of the author) is a different species from *Kalanchoe integra*(Medikus) > Kuntze. > > > On 21 February 2013 23:04, surajit koley <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Garg Sir, >> >> This is related to *Balkar Sir's post of Kalanchoe spathulata* - >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/a1Sol8JlM0g/discussion which >> is integrated in eFI taxon *K. integra* - >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/crassulaceae/kalanchoe/kalanchoe-integra >> . >> >> Please, see the attached screenshot that informs *Kalanchoe integra has >> some confusion*. According to GRIN it is synonym of *K. spathulata* DC. - >> http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?430177. >> >> *Kalanchoe spathulata DC. is accepted taxon in GRIN* - >> http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?21092. >> >> Flora of British India, vol.2, >> p414<http://ia600603.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?id=mobot21753000004415&itemPath=%2F33%2Fitems%2Fmobot21753000004415&server=ia600603.us.archive.org&page=n418_w1150.jpg>informs >> that the plant is distributed in tropical Himalaya, from Bhutan to >> Kashmir. >> >> Though The Plant List<http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-8902766> >> , >> FoC<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=241000241>and >> FoP<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=241000241>equate >> *K. spathulata* DC. with *Kalanchoe integra* (Medikus) Kuntze, I think >> we should maintain the taxon as *Kalanchoe spathulata DC. as in GRIN and >> In F. B. I.* >> >> More so because :- >> >> 1. FoNA doesn't equate *K. integra* with *K. spathulata* - >> http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=241000241 >> 2. *Cotyledon spathulata* (DC.) Poir. of >> FoC<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=241000241> is >> different in The Plant List - >> http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2740351 >> >> Why should we go for confusion when we have clear dictate from GRIN and >> F. B. I.? >> >> Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2045 members & > 1,45,000 messages on 31/1/13) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 8000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
