Welcome Michel. I am sure our group will gain knowledge from you, hoping you will also get benefit from the group.
Regards, happy posting, Dinesh On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:21 AM, OZmic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear new friends, > Thanks to Dinesh (surname supressed), I think I have found a forum that > will stimulate me. I have been waiting for some plant names in Indian > scripts to appear on the www since 1995 when I first launched the MMPND. > Pankaj (surname supressed) contributed a few but back then the fonts were > not available. I had to create images with devices that did not produce the > exact words, the result was poor. Since then there has been an abundance of > words in various scripts. We are now facing a new problem. Nomenclatural > identification. > There is the official nomenclature - taxonomy, and there is the vernacular > (common names). Not always matching each other. Photos help but without > photo, one needs to start from a strong basis. Hence my work since the > 1985's, 1995 online. > My point is: I would suggest that we use the authority names with all > botanical names, that is for example *Azadirachta excelsa* (Jack) M. > Jacobs as opposed to just the usual *Azadirachta excelsa* . Why? because > the bot. name on its own may mean different things when used by different > authorities. In order to track down the synonyms in the search for a > positive ID a complete botanical name is the first strong step. I suggest > the first 2 sites in order to find those generally up-to-date complete bot. > names: > < http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/List_bot.html#sec.02 > > < http://www.ars-grin.gov/ > > These will also supply bot. synonyms and common names...and more. They are > valuable when doing searches online. 10 names will return nothing and one > will return hundreds of pages. I have had plenty of experience since 1995. > These 2 sites are built on years of experience started long before the > internet was invented. Do take advantage of that experience. > There are also other sites dealing with bot. names but usually not as > focused on international communication. Many of those are linked in some > way to these 2 anyhow. > Regards to all. > Michel
