Vijayasankar ji ... forgot to respond to your other points. About putting family names: had given a thought to it prior to settling at species level. Cross-linking to each entlty becomes more and more cumbersome, especially when a change has to be effected. Moving a whole lot of genera from one family into another will become more than a tough job.
"Names of Plants in India" is concentrated on getting to common names of a plant (read: particular species) as well as knowing different plants sharing a name, Thus names and species are cross-indexed. Occurrence, distribution, brief description, importance and uses are not in the scope of this site. BUT it would be a great thing to happen if any person(s) keen about any of the subject(s) would go ahead to make sub-site(s). Will be glad to give any starting assistance. Later, at a macro-level all such information can be collated to form a detailed page for each species. Regards. Dinesh On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Vijayasankar ji, many thanks for the pointer towards author citation ... > BUT am a little nervous about getting into it (ideally need not, with so > many friends around me with clear knowledge). > Yet would rather take someone's help in this regard who will provide me > with this data for every species that I post here. > Hopefully some friend(s) will come forward. > > Pankaj. many thanks for setting right the thoughts about "current" name ... > will soon incorporate it into my notes along with stress on synonyms (and > basionym). > And thanks too for the ilex name ... will add it. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> It looks good, Dinesh ji. >> I strongly suggest you to include author citation for all botanical names, >> incl. accepted names, basionyms, and synonyms. The (author) names should be >> in abbreviated form following Brummitt & Powell's book "Authors of Plant >> Names" or the related database. I earlier suggested the same for FOI site as >> well. >> >> pl also include family name for all taxa. >> >> at later stage, you may also like to provide the occurrence and >> distribution, brief description (not a technical one), local uses etc. for >> the benefit of users :) >> >> Regards >> >> Vijayasankar Raman >> National Center for Natural Products Research >> University of Mississippi >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Thats going to be nice and informative. I will have a proper look >>> after my deadline. >>> There is no need to write CURRENT before names. >>> Why? >>> Because there is no current and previous name, there is just one name >>> to a plant. When you say basionym then it means it is the name on >>> which other name is based. >>> Synonyms could be Synonyms and Basionyms. You may point on that. >>> You can also say Ilex leaved Acanthus as the name of the plant itself >>> suggests. Holly is the common name for Ilex (ilex).... >>> Just a few thought... >>> Regards >>> Pankaj >> >> >> >
