Dinesh ji Spilanthes acmella is a highly confused species. Recent studies have shown that Verbesina acmella L. on which Murray based his combination Spilanthes acmella (L.) Murray is now correctly known as Blainvillea acmella (L.) Philipson with flat receptacle and white ray florets. The species wrongly refered to Spilanthes acmella by several authors including Hayata (1904), Kitamura (1941) and Li (1978) refering to many Asian specimens i.e Spilanthes acmella auct (non (L) Murray) is correctly known as Acmella paniculata (Wall. ex DC) Jensen, 185, which has cone shaped receptacle without ray florets. So specimens of Spilanthes acmella in older publications should belong to Blainvillea acmella (L.) or Acmella paniculata (Wall. ex DC) Jensen, or may be even A. uliginosa with yellow ray florets, or possibly others as I had given in the key uploaded earlier.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh 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/ On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear friends, > > Is *Spilanthes acmella* synonym of *Blainvillea acmella* OR are they > separate species ? > > This query because Google image results show them different. > > *Spilanthes acmella* is treated as synonym of *Blainvillea acmella*. at: > eFlora (Nepal Checklist) ... > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=200023542 > NPGS / GRIN ... http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?311862 > > > Regards. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
