Yes I agree with Tanay. One has to accept that it was KEW now more than 115
years back who published Index Kewensis under the leadership of Sir J D
Hooker to bring naming to order by selecting correct names and synonyms, and
now there is a complete database , available online to whole World sorting
accepted names and synonyms. Agreed, there are many misses: some names are
missing, there is a huge list of unresolved names, missing citations and may
be some controversial decisions, but let us realize that such mistakes are
bound to occur in database of such a size. At least we have some thing to
bank upon. We can all contribute to bring such discrepancies to their notice
and I hope with efforts of all. I have been mailing at least one list of
errors/corrections to them every week.
I may say: The Plant List is not perfect at this stage but perhaps best
database available to us at present.
--
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 Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Tanay Bose <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ravi ji.
> I am not sure how other members will react to the website content
> but I will surely say that plant list is a nice well maintained website.
> The contributors to this website are regarded as one of the best in
> the world (e.g. Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, NYBG e.tc.). Hence,
> this can be a reliable source to get your plant identified though
> nothing is flawless in the world. If you are in a process of research
> publication then it will be a great idea to recheck the identity of the
> plant from the description provided by the original author(s) which
> is also a reliable reference that can be cited.
>
> Thanks
> Tanay
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:07 PM, bladderwort <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Recently I had used this website for all the scientific names of my
>> research work, then my guide asked me to drop it out since the other
>> taxonomists might not be aware of it or the credibility of this
>> website is questionable and whether it could be used as a source of
>> reference. Finally I went back to the scientific names from floras
>> and stuck on to these nomenclatures. I would be happy if some of the
>> members shared their experience and also whether the nomenclature in
>> the website is reliable and trustworthy!!
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Tanay Bose*
> Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant.
> Department of Botany.
> University of British Columbia .
> 3529-6270 University Blvd.
> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
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> *Webpages:*
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> http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html
> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
>
>
>
--
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/
