Sometimes back a senior scientist commented in a reputed Indian journal that he feels pity for the taxonomists who keep on digging and searching old literature in search of correct name of a plant which is a wastage of time!
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > thank you Dr Rawat > that explains the frequent name changes > > i have seen botanists at some renowned bot gs some of whom did only do > just that spend their office time in tracking the order of discoveries > drove me bonkers, they could have gone on to learn the newer fields of > study and analysis... > but it looked like inertia at worst > or obsession at best > or fear of newer avenues to do investigation with.. such as molecular > biology > > ah, > se la vie > usha di > > > > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:08 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Usha Di >> It is restoration of correct name rather than intentional name changing. >> This plant was first described by Royle in 1836. Later Blatter and Mc >> Cann also described the same plant (obviously collected from Maharashtra) >> in 1931 without knowing that it is already described. >> ICN (International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants) >> simply says that earliest legitimate name will only be the correct name so >> that due credit is given to the author describing the species first. >> The case remained unnoticed but now sorted out; credit now to Royle who >> introduced this plant to science first.. >> The epithet "nana" indicate small nature of plant. >> Botanists (particularly Taxonomists) have a large set of rules (ICN) for >> naming plants and they follow it. Some of them keep searching history of >> names and correcting them throughout their research career. >> Regards. >> DSRawat Pantnagar >> >> >> >> >> Dr D.S.Rawat >> Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & >> Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA >> >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Ushadi Micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dr Rawt >>> >>> I knew it as a *Euphorbia panchganiensis* >>> >>> so i had googled it middle of the nite >>> and was surprised to see name nana >>> >>> what makes people change an obviously indian origin name to a >>> nondescript name like nana >>> >>> this is what i dont understand >>> >>> >>> >>> usha di >>> >>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:08 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks to the people conserving it. >>>> The earlier name was *Euphorbia panchganiensis* Blatt. & Mc Cann >>>> synonymysed with it now. >>>> Mentioned in Red Data Book of Indian Plants Vol-3:122-123 as rare. >>>> Earlier known from Maharashtra as *E.panchganiensis* but now known >>>> from Western Himalaya too. >>>> Thanks for showing this rare species Sir! >>>> I never saw it in Uttarakhand during last two and a half decade. >>>> >>>> DSRawat Pantnagar >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 10:14:29 PM UTC+5:30, tchakrab wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Ex situ conservation at Botanical Survey of India, Pune. >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Tapas. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Usha di >>> =========== >>> >> >> > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
