Dear Neil ji and Dinesh ji The link and discussion cited by Neil ji was dated in 2009, and lot has changed since the publication of KEW Plant List in 2010. It still contains some ambiguities but hope we will have to live with these for at least 2-3 years more till things are sorted out.
The name Morinda pubescens Sm., according to Kew Plant List is unplaced name, yet to be resolved In Flora of British India, Sir J D Hooker, while naming the variety M. tinctoria var. tomentosa Hook.f. did cite M. tomentosa Heyne in Roth as the first synonym, but perhaps the two plants are different (Hooker also gave differentiating characters as leaves tomentose on both surfaces, peduncles leaf-opposed) and that is why the entry at Kew Plant List as well TROPICOS (and Fernandez, Trees of Mumbai, page 174, 1999--though I have not seen this) lists the variety as tomentosa Hook.f and not (Heyne ex Roth) Hook.f., similarly Fernandez while transferring this to species to *M. coreia* Buch.-Ham., names it as *M. coreia* Buch.-Ham. var. *tomentosa *(Hook.f.) Fernandez and not *M. coreia* Buch.-Ham. var. tomentosa (Heyne ex Roth) Fernandez. ......................This taxon (excluding M. tomentosa Hehne ex Roth) is according to KEW Plant List synonym of M. *M. coreia* Buch.-Ham. In fact M. tinctoria Roxb. itself is synonym of *M. coreia* Buch.-Ham http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-129800 The fact that two (*M. tinctoria* var. *tomentosa* Hook.f. and M. tomentosa Heyne ex Roth) are different is supported by the fact that *M. tomentosa*Heyne ex Roth is now considered as synonym of *M. citrifolia* L. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-129953 Perhaps both species (M. coreia and M. citrifolia) occur in India and a reliable recent key should help. -- 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/ On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > Thought we had settled this issue. Please refer to this link: > > > https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/5927bedae08f10f4/d1f9f53b736d543e?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=Morinda+tomentosa+Neil+Soares#d1f9f53b736d543e > > Regards, > Neil Soares. > > --- On *Thu, 5/26/11, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:70406] Re: Please identify this tree > To: "Gurcharan Singh" <[email protected]> > Cc: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 11:36 PM > > > Gurcharan ji ... *OR* did you imply *M. pubescens* is J. E. Sm is now > reduced to synonmy of *M. coreia* Buch.-Ham. ? > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Dinesh Valke > <[email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Gurcharan ji, > > 1) *M. tinctoria Roxb. var tomentosa (Heyne ex Roth.) Hook. f*. ... > synonym of *M. pubescens* J. E. Sm > 2) *M. tinctoria var. tomentosa Hook.f.* ... renamed as *M. coreia* var. * > tomentosa* (Hook. f.) R.R.Fernandez ... synonym of *M. coreia* Buch.-Ham. > > Wanting to clear my confusion ... hope these: 1) and 2) are distinct. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Gurcharan Singh > <[email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > According to Kew Plant List Morinda tinctoria var. tomentosa Hook.f. was > renamed Morinda coreia var. tomentosa<http://www.tropicos.org/Name/100225909> > (Hook. > f.) R.R.Fernandez (TROPICOS information) in Trees of Mumbai 174, 1999. This > is now considered as synonym of *Morinda* *coreia* Buch.-Ham. > > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-129800 > > > -- > 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/ > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:31 PM, H S <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think M. tinctoria Roxb. var tomentosa (Heyne ex Roth.) Hook. f. is syn > of M. pubescens J. E. Sm. > > > > -- > - H.S. > > A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of > stone > > > > > > >
