Thanks a lot, Tapas ji. I will change accordingly.
On 28 August 2016 at 21:37, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> wrote: > Garg ji, > This is matter of opinion only. > My present comment and identification as above is based on the following > publication: > Chakrabarty, T. & Balakrishnan, N. P. 2015. Reinstatement of four taxa > synonymized under *Breynia quadrangularis *with proposal for a new > subgenus *Hemisauropus *(Phyllanthaceae). *J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. *39(3-4): > 415-419. > > We have one advantage over them. Our publication is based on the study of > available specimens in the major Indian herbaria while their paper is based > on studies on old gatherings available in the European herbaria. Thus we > are in a better position to assess the range of variation exhibited by the > relevant taxa. Welzen & al. never visited India. > > I am giving an example here. In 2014, I. M. Turner jeoperdized the > nomenclature of Terminalia sect. Pentaptera by removing the name T. > elliptica Willd. applied by Gangopadhyay & Chakrabarty, 1992 for an > assortment of species variously treated in Indian floras and treatments as > T. alata, T. crenulata, T. coriacea and T. tomentosa and adding the same to > Terminalia arjuna as a synonym and proposing to conserve the name T. arjuna > against T. elliptica. I wish Turner would have seen the specimens in the > Indian herbaria before arriving at such a conclusion! I will come back to > you as soon as my paper in this regard is published! > Regards, > Tapas. > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:16 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, Tapas ji. >> But Phylogenetic reconstruction prompts taxonomic changes in *Sauropus*, >> *Synostemon* and *Breynia* (*Phyllanthaceae* tribe *Phyllantheae*) by >> P.C. van Welzen K. Pruesapan, I.R.H. Telford, H.-J. Esser , J.J. Bruhl- >> Blumea 59, 2014: 77–94 gives as below: >> >> *Breynia quadrangularis* (Willd.) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012) 121. — >> *Phyllanthus >> quadrangularis* Willd. (1805) 585. — *Sauropus quadrangularis* (Willd.) >> Müll.Arg. (1863) 73. — *Aalius quadrangularis* (Willd.) Kuntze (1891) >> 591. — Type: Hb. Willdenow 17985 (holotype B-W; IDC microfiche 7440!), >> India. >> *Sauropus rigidus* Thwaites (1864) 284. — *Phyllanthus neo-rigidus* >> Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2009) 715, non *P. rigidus* Tate. — *Breynia >> rigida* (Thwaites) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012) 121. — Type: Thwaites >> CP 2135 (holotype K; isotypes BM, CAL n.v., G, PDA n.v.), Sri Lanka >> (Ceylon). >> *Sauropus compressus* Müll.Arg. (1866) 243. — *Aalius compressus* (Müll. >> Arg.) Kuntze (1891) 591, as ‘compressa’. — *Sauropus quadrangularis* >> (Willd.) Müll.Arg. var. compressus (Müll.Arg.) Airy Shaw (1972) 337. — >> *Phyllanthus >> indo-myanmarensis* Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2009) 715, non *P. compressus* >> Müll.Arg. —* Breynia compressa* (Müll.Arg.) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. >> (2012) 120. — Syntypes: Hooker s.n., s.d. (G-DC n.v., IDC >> microfiche DC herbarium 2489/5, K (2 sheets)), India, Sikkim, Regio Trop. >> *Sauropus quandrangularis* (Willd.) Müll.Arg. var. *puberulus* Kurz >> (1877) 350. — *Phyllanthus indo-myanmarensis* Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. >> var. *puberulus* (Kurz) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2009) 715. — *Breynia >> compressa *(Müll.Arg.) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. var. *puberulus* (Kurz) >> Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012) 120. — Type: Kurz 1586 (holotype CAL n.v.), >> Myanmar. >> >> Is there further change in the matter pl ? >> >> On 28 August 2016 at 17:03, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is *Breynia compressa* (Mull.Arg.) Chakrab. & N.P. Balakr. based >>> on Sauropus compressus Mull.Arg. It is different and distinct from Breynia >>> quadrangularis (J.G. Klein ex Willd.) Chakrab. & N. P. Balakr. (Basionym: >>> Phyllanthus quadrangularis J.G. Klein ex Willd. = Sauropus quadrangularis >>> (J.G. Klein ex Willd.) Mull.Arg.). >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Lalithamba Avadhanam < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> *Plant name: **Sauropus quadrangularis* (Willd.) Müll.Arg., *Linnaea >>>> 32: 73. 1863.* >>>> >>>> *Ver.names:* Triple nerved lizard’s foot (Eng.); Tella vusirika (Tel.). >>>> >>>> *Family: * Phyllanthaceae >>>> >>>> *Description:* >>>> >>>> Erect shrubs 0.5-1 m tall, glabrous throughout; branchlets 4-angled. >>>> Leaves alternate; stipules lanceolate; petiole 1-2 mm; leaf blade ovate, or >>>> rounded, 1-2.5 × 0.5-2 cm, membranous, base rounded, apex rounded, >>>> mucronate. Flowers unisexual, axillary, subtended by leaves. Male flowers >>>> 2-3 in axils, 2-3 mm; calyx discoid, 1.5 mm in diam., 6-lobed; apex obtuse >>>> or retuse; disk scales very short; anthers spreading. Female flowers: >>>> Solitary, pedicels 0.5-1cm; lobes 5-7 mm in diam., 6-lobed, biseriate, >>>> outer broadly ovate, inner shorter than outer, rotund; ovary turbinate, >>>> apex truncate; styles 3, bifid at apex, lobes recurved. Capsules ovoid, >>>> 4-6mm >>>> across, woody when dry, with a lobed rim, seeds trigonous. >>>> >>>> *Habitat & location:* Limited to S.India. Rare. Found in the foot >>>> hills. Photographed at S.R.Puram-Porumamilla ghat, and Penchalakona forest. >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> A.Lalithamba >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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