I have often been (and more so Pankaj ji) emphasizing the need for citing the author names, otherwise it can lead to lot of confusion I have often pointed out the case of Phyllanthus niruri, which is a Linnean species and cited as synonym of both P. fraternus and P. amarus on Flowers of India, although it a totally distinct plant. Agreed that we should keep our websites as simple as possible, but at least they should have information which should not confuse readers/visitors to the website.
Today I discovered another. Two species of Boehmeria are described (besides others) in Flora of British India: B. macrophylla D. Don, with shrubby habit, stout branches, opposite leaves, lanceolate, 15-30 cm long, with bullate (puckered or blistered) upper surface, under surface with deep hollows between nerves, shorter petiole (1-2.5 cm); flowers in globose 4-6 mm clusters, in interrupted leafless spikes shorter than or equalling leaves. B. platyphylla D. Don: shrubby with soft branches, leaves 7-20 cm long, thinner, appearing like Urtica leaf, sparsely hispid; petiole 3-12 cm long; male spike 7-15 cm long, female 15-30 cm long, slender, longer than leaves with smaller distant clusters. B. macrophylla D. Don is now considered as illegitimate name and is correctly known as *Boehmeria penduliflora* Weddell ex D. G. Long, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 40: 130. 1982. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2678390 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242308736 http://www.visoflora.com/photos-nature/boehmeria-penduliflora.html?xtref=http://www.google.co.in/imgres?q=boehmeria+penduliflora$um=1$hl=en$sa=X$biw=1280$bih=675$tbm=isch$tbnid=tNqjCOjpnhxgJM:$imgrefurl=http://www.visoflora.com/photos-nature/boehmeria-penduliflora.html$docid=6rQoCMl8aIViRM$w=1024$h=784$ei=pmiVTuXpNqbh4QSv58WoCA$zoom=1$iact=hc$vpx=194$vpy=158$dur=692$hovh=196$hovw=257$tx=184$ty=87$page=1$tbnh=154$tbnw=204$start=0$ndsp=18$ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0 http://www.farelli.info/pages_books/butterflies/nymphalidae/acraea-issoria.htm B. platyphylla D. Don, is now considered as synonym of . *Boehmeria macrophylla* Hornemann, Hort. Bot. Hafn. 2: 890. 1815., which was uploaded few days back by me on September 26 Boehmeria macrophylla from Dakpathjar validate https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Boehmeria$20macrophylla/indiantreepix/B-bbHVo-pm4/jF-EX0hS-zwJ http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2678316 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200006391 A look at Flowers of India Website suggests that the two species (and all the three names) are same (synonyms, as no Authors are cited) but in reality they are two distinct: -- 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/
