Thank you very much Vijayasankar ji; your analysis is convincing, and etymology should be so. I too was thinking that *robusto* could be a descriptive prefix, when I saw few instances of the hyphenated epithet, as in Herbarium JCB <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=1575&cat=1>, IISc, ... but did not know of another species *E, brownianum*. Thank you very much.
Regards. Dinesh On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Vijayasankar Raman < [email protected]> wrote: > Dinesh ji, > > I was able to trace back to the original publication by Engler in 1903 > (see attached). Although there is no direct mention of etymology of the > specific epithet in the protologue, we can infer something. First of all, > the specific epithet is originally hyphenated (*robusto-Brownianum*). > And, there is another species called *Eriocaulon brownianum* (the first > letter of specific names derived from name of a person or place was usually > capitalized in the past). I assume that this plant, *E. > robusto-brownianum*, is morphologically somewhat similar to *E. > brownianum* but comparatively more ''robust'' in its habit, i.e. the > peduncles could be more in number and/or stouter than those of *E. > brownianum*. This is just a hypothesis, though! > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> I could not find any clue to what the epithet *robustobrownianum* in >> context of *Eriocaulon robustobrownianum* Ruhland stands for. >> Hopefully someone helps with the etymology. >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Vijayasankar > > ------------------------------------------ > Vijayasankar Raman > Research Scientist > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi, USA > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
