Yes dear, it was purely honoring the contributions. I was joking!! My intention was to say that he wouldnt have named plants after single person again and again. HONOR TO ALL!!
Pankaj On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pankaj, thanks for the details. > But, neither Poa is a basionym for this one, nor the genus Panicum has > existing specific epithet gamblei. So there was no force/rule to prevent Bor > from naming the species in collector's name. Anyway after all both Gamble > and Fischer were thick friends (citation needed). And Bor might have decided > to honour Fischer who compiled the 3rd vol of Flora of Presidency after > Gamble. So this may be purely honouring the contribution. And he has > honoured Fisher thrice (Dimeria, Isachne & Panicum, from your list). That > shows his great sense of appreciation. > > Regards > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. > Post Doctoral Research Associate > National Center for Natural Products Research > Thad Cochran Research Center > University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677 > Phone: +1 662 915 1018 > > > 2010/12/8 Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> >> >> Clusiaceae Kayea sukoeana Bor -- Indian Forest Rec., Bot. 3: 148. 1941 >> (IK) >> Illecebraceae Kabulia akhtarii Bor & C.E.C.Fisch. -- Indian Forester >> 1939, lxv. 611. (IK) >> Poaceae trib. Aeluropodeae Nevski ex Bor -- Oesterr. Bot. Z. 112: 184. >> 1965 >> Poaceae Agrostis mackliniae Bor -- Kew Bull. 1957, 417 (1958). (IK) >> Poaceae Agrostis poluninii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1953, 269 (1953). (IK) >> Poaceae Agrostis stewartii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1956, 255 (1956). (IK) >> Poaceae Agrostis wardii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1949, 444 (1949). (IK) >> Poaceae Alopecurus davisii Bor -- Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 25: >> 63. 1963 (IK) >> Poaceae Arthraxon santapaui Bor -- Kew Bull. 1951, 446 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Arundinaria macclureana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1957, 420 (1958). (IK) >> Poaceae Arundinaria wardii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1957, 418 (1958). (IK) >> Poaceae Coelachne soerensenii Bor -- Dansk Bot. Ark. xx. 149 (1962). (IK) >> Poaceae Colpodium gillettii Bor -- Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 25: >> 64. 1963 (IK) >> Poaceae Dactyloctenium henrardianum Bor -- Blumea, Suppl. 3: 44. 1946 (IK) >> Poaceae Danthonia jacquemontii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1952, 80 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Deyeuxia griffithii Bor -- Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 70: 272. 1970 >> (IK) >> Poaceae Deyeuxia hackelii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1954, 497 (1954). (IK) >> Poaceae Deyeuxia kashmiriana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1954, 558 (1955). (IK) >> Poaceae Deyeuxia nagarum Bor -- Indian Forest Rec., Bot. 1: 69. 1938 (IK) >> Poaceae Deyeuxia parsana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1948, 42 (1948). (IK) >> Poaceae Dichanthium theinlwinii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1949, 223 (1949). (IK) >> Poaceae Digitaria duthieana Henrard ex Bor -- Kew Bull. 1953, 273 (1953). >> (IK) >> Poaceae Digitaria larsenii Bor -- Dansk Bot. Ark. xx. 157 (1962). (IK) >> Poaceae Digitaria stewartiana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1951, 166 (1951). (IK) >> Poaceae Dimeria acutipes Bor -- Kew Bull. 1952, 560 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Dimeria ballardii Bor -- Kew Bull. 584 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Dimeria blatteri Bor -- Kew Bull. 1949, 70 (1949). (IK) >> Poaceae Dimeria ceylanica Bor -- Kew Bull. 562 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Dimeria deccanensis Bor -- Kew Bull. 578 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Dimeria fischeri Bor -- Kew Bull. 564 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Dimeria keenanii Bor -- Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 28: >> 299. 1968 (IK) >> Poaceae Dimeria orissae Bor -- Kew Bull. 579 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Duthiea nepalensis Bor -- Kew Bull. 1953. 550 (1954). (IK) >> Poaceae Eragrostis theinlwinii Bor -- Indian Forest Rec., Bot. 3: 144. >> 1941 (IK) >> Poaceae Erianthus wardii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1954, 498 (1954). (IK) >> Poaceae Erianthus williamsii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1957, 413 (1958). (IK) >> Poaceae × Euchlaezea Janaki ex Bor -- Grasses Burma, Ceyl., Ind. & >> Pakist. 266 (1960), hybr. artef., sine descr. lat. (IK) >> Poaceae Eulalia staintonii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1957, 411 (1958). (IK) >> Poaceae Eulaliopsis sykesii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1957, 412 (1958). (IK) >> Poaceae Festuca hedgei (Bor) E.B.Alexeev -- Byull. Mosk. Obshch. >> Ispyt. Prir., Biol. 82(3): 100 (1977). (IK) >> Poaceae Hyparrhenia griffithii Bor -- Indian Forest Rec., Bot. 1: 92. 1938 >> (IK) >> Poaceae Isachne fischeri Bor -- Kew Bull. 1949, 69 (1949). (IK) >> Poaceae Ischaemum dalzellii Stapf ex Bor -- Kew Bull. 1951, 448 (1952). >> (IK) >> Poaceae Ischaemum hansenii Bor -- Dansk Bot. Ark. xxiii. 470 (1968). (IK) >> Poaceae Ischaemum hubbardii Bor -- Indian Forest Rec., Bot. 1: 98. 1938 >> (IK) >> Poaceae Ischaemum lacei Stapf ex Bor -- Kew Bull. 1950, 187 (1950). (IK) >> Poaceae Ischaemum ritchiei Stapf ex Bor -- Kew Bull. 1951, 449 (1952). >> (IK) >> Poaceae Ischaemum santapaui Bor -- J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xlix. 167 >> (1950). (IK) >> Poaceae Jansenella griffithiana (C.Muell.) Bor -- Kew Bull. 98 (1955). >> (IK) >> Poaceae Leucopoa hedgei Bor -- Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 70: 71. 1970 (IK) >> Poaceae Lophochloa berythea (Boiss. & Blancke) Bor -- Taxon xvi. 68 >> (1967). (IK) >> Poaceae Lophopogon duthiei Stapf ex Bor -- Grasses Burma, Ceyl., Ind. >> & Pakist. 689 (1960). (IK) >> Poaceae Miscanthus taylorii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1953, 273 (1953). (IK) >> Poaceae Miscanthus wardii Bor -- Kew Bull. 274 (1953). (IK) >> Poaceae Nastus holttumianus Bor -- Oesterr. Bot. Z. 120(1-2): 90. 1972 >> (IK) >> Poaceae Oryzopsis rechingeri Bor -- Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 70: 402. 1970 >> (IK) >> Poaceae Oryzopsis stewartiana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1953, 272 (1953). (IK) >> Poaceae Oryzopsis wendelboi Bor -- Nytt Mag. Bot., Oslo i. 16 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Panicum fischeri Bor -- Kew Bull. 1956, 257 (1956). (IK) >> Poaceae Poa davisii Bor -- Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 31(3): 395. >> 1972 (IK) >> Poaceae Poa eleanorae Bor -- Kew Bull. 1948, 142 (1948). (IK) >> Poaceae Poa gamblei Bor -- Kew Bull. 1948, 144 (1948). (IK) >> Poaceae Poa koelzii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1948, 139 (1948). (IK) >> Poaceae Poa rhadina Bor -- Kew Bull. 1948, 138 (1948). (IK) >> Poaceae Poa roemeri Bor -- Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 70: 39. 1970 (IK) >> Poaceae Poa stapfiana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1949, 239 (1949). (IK) >> Poaceae Poa stewartiana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1951, 185 (1951). (IK) >> Poaceae Poa wardiana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1948, 143 (1948). (IK) >> Poaceae Saccharum hookeri Nayaran. ex Bor -- Fl. Assam v. App. 1. 461 >> (1940). (IK) >> Poaceae Sclerostachya milroyi Bor -- in Indian Forest Rec. n.s., i. >> Bot., 85 (1939). (IK) >> Poaceae Sinarundinaria macclureana (Bor) C.S.Chao & G.Y.Yang -- J. >> Bamboo Res. 13(1): 20 (1994):. (IK) >> Poaceae Sporobolus collettii (Hook.f.) Bor -- Kew Bull. 1954, 502 (1954). >> (IK) >> Poaceae Sporobolus kerrii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1949, 252 (1949). (IK) >> Poaceae Sporobolus stocksii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1948, 45 (1948). (IK) >> Poaceae Stipa hookeri Stapf & Bor -- Kew Bull. 1950, 319 (1951), >> descr. emend. et ampl. (IK) >> Poaceae Stipa munroana Bor -- Kew Bull. 1954, 500 (1954). (IK) >> Poaceae Stipa staintonii Bor -- Bull. Bot. Surv. India vii. 133 (1965). >> (IK) >> Poaceae Themeda mooneyi Bor -- Kew Bull. 1951, 451 (1952). (IK) >> Poaceae Thyrsostachys oliveri Gamble & Bor -- Indian Forest Rec., Bot. >> 2: 222, descr. emend. 1941 (IK) >> Poaceae Tripogon hookerianus Bor -- Grasses Burma, Ceyl., Ind. & >> Pakist. 522 (1960). (IK) >> Poaceae Tripogon larsenii Bor -- Dansk Bot. Ark. xxiii. 470 (1968). (IK) >> Poaceae Tripogon wardii Bor -- Kew Bull. 1957, 417 (1958). (IK) >> >> These doesnt include those names which had basionyms. > > -- *********************************************** "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
