Thank you very much Pankaj ... this information was enlightening and interesting too. Regards.
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes Pankaj ji > I have written about such situations many a times on this group. I hope it > soon picks up. > > > -- > 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/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear Dinesh sir, >> >> There is one technical issue here. You cant write, "Hibiscus >> hispidissimus (syn. H. furcatus, H. aculeatus)". >> >> Why? >> >> Because, the reprint and your link uses some words like "non Willd." >> and "non Walter". So it means these two names (H. furcatus & H. >> aculeatus) are being given by Walter and Willdenow for other taxa and >> they are being validly used. So your writing this way means you have >> merged three different species in one, which is not the case here. >> >> So now we have three names here. The above plant being: >> >> Hibiscus hispidissimus Griff., Not. Pl. Asiat. 4: 521 (1854). >> Synonyms: >> Hibiscus aculeatus Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 206 (1832) (non Walter 1788) (nom. >> illeg.) >> Hibiscus furcatus Roxb. ex DC., Prodr. 1: 448 (1824) (non Willdenow) >> (nom. illeg.) >> >> nom. illeg. means name is illegitimate according to the ICBN's >> Priority of Publication (Article 11), i.e., wrong, because, there are >> other two plants accepted with the same two names but given by two >> different authors. Those names are as follows: >> >> Hibiscus furcatus Willd., Enum. Pl. [Willdenow] 2: 736 (1809). >> >> Hibiscus aculeatus Walter, Fl. Carol. [Walter] 177 (1788). >> >> So the solution: >> >> If you dont wish to write the original citation like most of the >> taxonomists do, then, in the simplest way it can be written as: >> >> Hibiscus hispidissimus [syn. H. furcatus (not the originally >> described), H. aculeatus (not the originally described)]. >> >> or >> >> Hibiscus hispidissimus [syn. H. furcatus (non Willdenow), H. aculeatus >> (non Walter)] >> >> Hope this is understandable. >> >> Regards >> Pankaj >> >> >> >> >> -- >> *********************************************** >> "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" >> >> >> Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) >> Research Associate >> Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project >> Department of Habitat Ecology >> Wildlife Institute of India >> Post Box # 18 >> Dehradun - 248001, India >> > > > >
