Oh! Thanks Pankaj for this information. Regards. Dinesh
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May > 1889) was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th > century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of > Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae) was also a well-known > botanist. > He had this very strange desire that when ever a plant dictionary is > made, the plant name on the top should belong to him. To fulfill his > desires, he named an orchid genus as "Aa". > This genus is represented by around 35 species distributed from > Central America to Northwest Argentina. > > Pankaj > > > -- > *********************************************************** > Pankaj Kumar, Ph.D. > IUCN-SSC Orchid Specialist Group Asia > > Office: > Conservation Officer > Orchid Conservation Section > Flora Conservation Department > Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation > Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. > Residence: > 151, 1st Floor, Tai Om Tsuen > Lam Tsuen, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. > > email: [email protected]; [email protected] > Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:00pm); +852 9436 6251 > (mobile). Fax: +852 2483 7194 > > -- > 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
