Sorry, missed.. stracheyi stands for Lt. Richard Strachey, 19th century official within the Indian Civil Service and plant collector in Tibet. He was a father of 13 by the way :).
Pankaj On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Bergenia stracheyi (Hook.f. & Thomson) Engl. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 26: 842. > 1868 > > Basionym: Saxifraga stracheyi Hook.f. & Thomson J. Proc. Linn. Soc., > Bot. 2: 61. 1857 > > Bergenia is named for Karl August von Bergen, 18th century German > physician and botanist. He is among those authors who wrote botanical > treatise before Linnaeus, Flora Francofurtana (1750). > > 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 > -- *********************************************** "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
