Thanks Ritesh ji You managed to send the monograph in the previous mail. Yes the molecular data would help in deciding the ultimate status. Let us wait till we find some conclusions. Who knows you being an authority on the group could convince (through your publications) The Plant List and other recent databases to change their listing. After all most scientific community is bound to follow The Plant List.
-- 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 Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Ritesh Kumar Choudhary < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you sir! > > Considering Hedberg's work (1997) on Koenigia (cant attach the PDF here due > to big file size), I think the genus deserves a separate status and I would > be happy to follow K. nepalensis as an accepted name. > > > Moreover, I am not comfortable with the mixing of Persicaria and Polygonum > in Fl. China. Rather, Fl. Pakistan's treatment is justifiable and is in line > with the molecular studies carried out by Kim & Donghue (2008) and others. > > Hope to hear from you. > > Regards, > Ritesh.
