Very interesting indeed...thanks, don't you have pics of any Aa species? is this name still valid??
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- 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.
