Dinesh ji This is orthographic change which became operative after 2005 Botanical Code, published in 2006. You will find vincaefolia in perhaps all publications before 2006.
-- 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, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Many thanks Gurcharan ji for providing the clarity. > However in this particular case, yet not clear whether to conclude * > vincaefolia* staying intact OR not. > > From Sir J D Hooker's The Flora of British India Vol. IV. -- failing to > find *Ceropegia vincaefolia* put as separate species ... rather it is put > as one of the five varieties of *Ceropegia hirsuta* ... thus *Ceropegia > hirsuta* var. *vincaefolia*. > > Is it so that *Ceropegia vincaefolia *got its individual status after his > book got published ? Is it the reason for changing the epithet at a later > date to *vincifolia* ? > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dinesh ji >> >> This article from ICBN, should provide the answer >> >> 60.8. The use of a compounding form contrary to Rec. 60G in an adjectival >> epithet is treated as an error to be corrected. >> Ex. 17. Candolle's *Pereskia "opuntiaeflora"* is to be cited as *P. >> opuntiiflora* DC. (1828), and *Myrosma "cannaefolia"* of the younger >> Linnaeus, as *M. cannifolia* L. f. (1782). >> Ex. 18. *Cacalia "napeaefolia"* and *Senecio* *"napeaefolius"* are to be >> cited as *Cacalia napaeifolia* DC. (1838) and *Senecio napaeifolius* (DC.) >> Sch. Bip. (1845), respectively; the specific epithet refers to the >> resemblance of the leaves to those of the genus *Napaea* L. (not *"Napea" >> *), and the substitute (connecting) vowel *-i* should have been used >> instead of the genitive singular inflection *-ae*. >> Ex. 19. However, in *Andromeda polifolia* L. (1753), the epithet is a >> pre-Linnaean plant name (*"Polifolia"* of Buxbaum) used in apposition and >> not an adjective; it is not to be altered to *"poliifolia"* (*Polium* >> -leaved). >> >> http://ibot.sav.sk/icbn/frameset/0065Ch7OaGoNSec1a60.htm >> >> >> -- >> 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, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:59 AM, prasad dash >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Dineshji, its a delight to go through all ur photographs. Cheers >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Prasad >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Giby Kuriakose < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Very nice picture! >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Giby >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 19 September 2011 22:55, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> via >>>>> Species<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species> >>>>> > C <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species/c> >>>>> > >>>>> *Ceropegia vincifolia* Hook. >>>>> [image: Ceropegia vincifolia >>>>> Hook.]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/6155453255/> >>>>> >>>>> [image: Flowers of >>>>> India]<http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Vinca-Leaved%20Ceropegia.html> >>>>> [image: >>>>> Discussions at >>>>> efloraofindia]<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21searchin/indiantreepix/Ceropegia%20vincifolia> >>>>> [image: >>>>> more views in >>>>> flickr]<http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Ceropegiavincifolia&m=tags&z=m> >>>>> [image: >>>>> more views on Google >>>>> Earth]<http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/india/&tags=Ceropegiavincifolia&format=kml_nl> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *seer-oh-PEEJ-ee-uh* -- from the Greek *keros* (wax) and *pege*(fountain) >>>>> ¿ *vin-key-FOH-lee-uh* ? -- having leaves like that of *Vinca* >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *commonly known as*: vinca-leaved >>>>> ceropegia<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/vinca-leaved-ceropegia>• >>>>> *Marathi*: कंदिल खरचुडी kandil >>>>> kharchudi<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/kandila-kharacudi-kandil-kharchudi> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *botanical names*: *Ceropegia vincifolia* Hook. ... *Ceropegia >>>>> vincaefolia* [archaic spelling / spelling variant] ... *synonyms*: >>>>> *Ceropegia >>>>> hirsuta* var. *vincaefolia* (Hook.) Hook. f. • *Ceropegia oculata*var. >>>>> *subhirsuta* H.Huber • *Ceropegia polyantha* Blatt. & McCann • *Ceropegia >>>>> stocksii* Hook.f. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards. >>>>> Dinesh >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD >>>> Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), >>>> Royal Enclave, >>>> Jakkur Post, Srirampura >>>> Bangalore- 560064 >>>> India >>>> Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) >>>> visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Prasad Kumar Dash >>> Ecologist, Orissa, India >>> email: [email protected] >>> ph. 09437444241 >>> >> >> >> >> >
