Thanks a lot Balakrishnan ji for clarification
based on Reply from Balakrishnan ji "The real Chrozophora plicata (Vahl) A.Juss. ex Spreng. does not occur in India. It is confined to Africa and Middle East. What is given as C. plicata in Indian floras are now known as *Chrozophora rottleri *(Geisl.) A.Juss. ex Spreng. N.P.Balakrishnan, 17 Nov. 2013" 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, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Nambiyath Balakrishnan <[email protected]>wrote: > The real Chrozophora plicata (Vahl) A.Juss. ex Spreng. does not occur in > India. It is confined to Africa and Middle East. What is given as C. > plicata in Indian floras are now known as *Chrozophora rottleri *(Geisl.) > A.Juss. ex Spreng. > N.P.Balakrishnan, 17 Nov. 2013 > > > On 17 November 2013 16:27, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Garg ji >> This needs to be resolved. >> If Chrozophora plicata (Vahl) A. Juss., 1826 (basionym Croton plicatus >> Vahl, 1790) and C. rottleri (Geiseler) A. Juss., 1826 (based on Croton >> rottleri Geiseler, 1807) are synonyms, the former should be the correct >> name as it is based in earlier basionym. >> >> If two are distinct species as listed on the Plant List, we have to know >> the differences to choose our plants from North India and Western Ghats. >> >> I hope Tapas ji and Balakrishnan ji can throw better light on this based >> on their treatment of Indian Euphorbiaceae. >> >> >> 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, Nov 17, 2013 at 1:02 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Chrozophora rottleri as per another >>> thread<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/BwXu2nTEqlA> >>> . >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >>> Date: 20 April 2011 22:09 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:67681] Chrozophora plicata from Delhi >>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Flowers of India < >>> [email protected]>, Tabish <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> Chrozophora plicata (Vahl) A. Juss. ex Spreng., Syst. veg. 3:850. 1826 >>> syn: *Croton plicatus* Vahl; *Chrozophora* *prostrata* Dalzell & Gibson >>> >>> Stellate-wooly prostrate herb with several branches; leaves nearly as >>> long as broad, upper surface folded (plicate); flowers unisexual; stamens >>> 15 in two whorls, petals pink; capsules stellate wooly, without scales. >>> Photographed from Vikas Puri Delhi, growing in waste lands. >>> >>> Common name: Giradol >>> >>> -- >>> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 (largest in the >>> world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2190 >>> members & 1,72,300 messages on 31/10/13) or Efloraofindia website: >>> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >>> of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). >>> 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]. 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.
