A reply from Dr. Siddhuji, I saw your post regarding Tamilnadia vs Gardenia. As Muthu said, the main problem is the literature access. Many people, except those advanced countries like Europe, USA, Canada and Australia, don't have access to all published works. So when newer researchers look for older unpopular literatures during their revision, they name them based on nomenclatural priority.
Another reason is due to modern molecular data, many genera/families and even orders previously placed in different places should be placed on different taxa based evolutionary concept. Eg: Asclepiadaceae is no more a family but a subfamily under Apocynaceae. Carica was earlier thought to have several species is now monotypic and the other species have been transferred to different genera (*Vasconcellea*,*Jacaratia* and *Jarilla*). Anyway I don't know the case of Tamilnadia, pls post the history of taxonomical revisions of Tamilnadia/Gardenia if you happen to investigate it. sid. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > The most important thing for nomenclatural changes is the review and > revision of more and more texts and literatures. > > More researches are being underway for finding out the earlier described > names (but after Linnaeus, 1753). Because they might be in different > language published earlier somewhere and we need to dig out them. This > happened when European colonisation in Asian countries flourished; they > collected plants from here and described there and those literatures might > be hiding somewhere in an antique. > > Your questions are better answered by Experts here Nivithaji. > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ... whoever ... in howsoever mildest form (attempts to) ask such question >> ... can be visualized pulling his / her hair off the head !!! >> >> Dear Selvalakshmi ji ... me too am with you for seeking the answer. >> Just yesterday, have posted similar query regarding *Arivela* and * >> Tarenaya*. >> >> Regards. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM, nivi tha <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Can anybody tell what is the actual reason for changing the species and >>> genus name after it was named even they had named correctly earlier. >>> >>> For eg: *Tamilnadia uliginosa *(Correct name) Syn. *Gardenia uliginosa*, >>> *Randia uliginosa*. etc., here what is the reason for changing he genus >>> name from Gardenia to Tamilnadia. Please give reasons for my doubt. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> Selvalakshmi S. >>> Doctoral Scholar, >>> Bhjarathiar Universtiy, >>> Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Muthu Karthick, N > Junior Research Fellow > Care Earth Trust > Chennai - 61 > www.careearthtrust.org > -- Muthu Karthick, N Junior Research Fellow Care Earth Trust Chennai - 61 www.careearthtrust.org
