Thanks dear Mr. Porcher for useful links and information -- 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:27 PM, OZmic <[email protected]> wrote: > I did reply to this question in details a while back but it may have got > lost. I'll try to give as good an answer again. > First this is a cultivar of C. sinensis. As has been pointed out already > several times by various people this week, the problems stem from the fact > that most academics treat plants at a specific level, ignoring anything > sub-specific sometimes, sub-variety nearly all the time. Due to the mixing > of old names with the new, the name gets first attached to a species, then > to another because it is a synonym or by mistake - yes experts make > mistakes sometimes. When one goes back in time the origin may be a cultivar > name as is the case here. Added to the botanical confusion is the > linguistic confusion. Mosambi becomes Mausambee, Mōsāmbī, Mōzāmbi etc. > then enter the scripted names মোসাম্বি, ಮೊಸಂಬಿ, मौसम्बी , मोसम्बी , > मोसाम्बी , मोज़ाम्बि , मोसंबी etc. None of these is validated. > Depending on how these names were created they may be correct or not, > correct in a language not in another but using the same script. In my mind > the correct name for this cultivar is: *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck > 'Mosambi' Therefore matching it with simply the species *Citrus* × *sinensis > *(L.) Osbeck is not completely wrong. > It may well be that the name Mosambi is applied to some other species in > some parts of India but it has to be displayed next to the name in order to > avoid perpetuating the confusion. I will leave this with you all to comment > on and give you the picture as I see it now at the end of the week, Perhaps > by then you will have changed my mind. > > ref. CHAPTER 3 - The Botany of Citrus and Its Wild Relatives BY WALTER > T. SWINGLE > Revised by Phillip C. Reece < > http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter3.html >. > CHAPTER 4 - Horticultural Varieties of Citrus BY ROBERT WILLARD HODGSON > < http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter4.html >. as complements to > *The Citrus Industry * > Revised Edition, University of California, Division of Agricultural > Sciences, based on above, 1967-1989 . < > http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Vol1TOC.html >. > > > On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 6:58:21 PM UTC+10, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> Not able to resurface I am reviving the older thread through this link >> >> https://groups.google.com/**forum/#!searchin/**indiantreepix/Mousambi/** >> indiantreepix/W13Ft2_GnR4/**F53ETzybKX8J<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21searchin/indiantreepix/Mousambi/indiantreepix/W13Ft2_GnR4/F53ETzybKX8J> >> >> >> -- >> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.**com/ <http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/> >> http://people.du.ac.in/~**singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >>
