After seeing some latest records, I also like to follow Catalogue of life. Seems to be continuously updated.
Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Mob: 9810359089 https://sing96.wixsite.com/mysite-1 On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 5:36 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Singh ji. > We can not follow any database all the time, for all our plants. > As we know, database in dependent on many underlying resources and these > are also getting updated and changed over a period of time. > We also get connected with many recent publications, discussions in our > group and advises from many experts, from time to time. > > POWO is also creating lot of confusion coming from Kew, but basing itself > on the The Plant List, when a taxon is not appearing in their more accurate > database on WCSP <https://wcsp.science.kew.org/qsearch.do>. This should > certainly give bad name to them. > > Catalogue has done a wonderful job in recent years and appears more > reliable after WCSP & ILDIS. But it also can not be relied all the time. It > changes based on latest publications (sometime on molecular studies), but > those may not be acceptable to all and has to stand scrutiny over a > reasonable period of time. Than we have our own Floras and efloras, which > needs to be connected properly. > > Sometimes, we may not be changing in order to maintain familiarity with a > genus and sometimes to maintain comparative images on a single page. There > may be thousands of old pages, for which I may not be in a position look > them all at a time. > > Thus this is very complex. > > In this case, I would like to go with Catalogue of Life. > > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 16:25, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Dear Garg ji >> I think we should decide which database we want to follow and then be >> consistent with it >> Both TPL and its New Version World Flora Online are unaware of >> combination Rungia parviflora var. muralis, and treat R. muralis >> unresolved/ambiguous., >> treat R. parviflora as synonym of R. pectinata >> Kew Database Plants of The World Online, also treat R. parviflora as >> synomym of R. pectinata, >> All three treat Rungia repens accepted name >> Only Catalogue of Life 2019 lists *Rungia parviflora* var. *muralis* (Nees) >> C. B. Clarke and lists it synonym of *Rungia muralis *Royle ex Nees >> (accepted name) >> Treats Rungia parviflora as synonym of Justicia parviflora and var. >> pectinata as synonym of Justicia pectinata >> >> >> >> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Mob: 9810359089 >> https://sing96.wixsite.com/mysite-1 >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:30 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Taking it as *Rungia parviflora* var. *muralis* (Nees) C.B.Clarke >>> <https://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/content/rungia-parviflora-var-muralis-nees-cbclarke> >>> with >>> spikes very dense, barren bracts ovate acute hardly longer than the >>> fertile, as per Flora of British India as per discussions in another >>> thread at Sorting Rungia species >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/indiantreepix/subject$3Asorting/indiantreepix/rsE7CWvtB_Y> >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>> From: JM Garg <[email protected]> >>> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 12:07 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:339446] Fwd: Elsholtzia cristata from Morni hills >>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> I think this should not be *Justicia repens* >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/justicia/rungia-repens> >>> with >>> bracts appearing to be dimorphic and not appearing to be uniform. >>> >>> On Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 7:48:20 AM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Elsholtzia ciliata (Thunb.) Hyl., Bot. Not. 1941: 129 1941. >>>> syn: Elsholtzia cristata Willd. >>>> >>>> A small aromatic herb with long petioled lanceolate leaves and compact >>>> one-sided inflorescence looking like a spike and with enlarged floral >>>> leaves. >>>> Photographed from Morni hilla, growing on open hill slopes. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/ >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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 view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/aaf6e541-d105-4f58-93eb-a4cad8293afa%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/aaf6e541-d105-4f58-93eb-a4cad8293afa%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or >>> Efloraofindia >>> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >>> database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than >>> 2,00,000 images are directly displayed on 30.8.19). >>> >>> 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). You can also use them for free as >>> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >>> >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >> > > -- > 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- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or > Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than > 2,00,000 images are directly displayed on 30.8.19). > > 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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