Thank you once again Satish Sir. The mystery behind the names is resolved to the finest level.
Regards, Surajit On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > > Surajit ji > We had a discussion earlier on this issue. Dear Pankaj kumar ji had > answered this query. > I am copy pasting what he had written in the post. > > * > Pankaj Kumar [email protected] via googlegroups.com > 11/2/10 > > to indiantreepix > Just for correction. I realized that the accepted spelling is > Rauvolfia L. and not Rauwolfia L. > WHY? > Because it was named by Linnaeus like that although the name of person > on which the name of taxa was based was Leonhard Rauwolf (also spelled > Rauwolff) [(Augsburg, June 21 in either 1535 or 1540 – September 15, > 1596, Waitzen, Hungary) was a German physician, botanist and > traveller]. > > Rauvolfia Plum. ex L. Sp. Pl. 1: 208. 1753 > > Regards > > *On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:36 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sir / Madam, > > > > An elaborate search in the net tells me that the accepted scientific > name of this species would be Rauvolfia serpentina. > > > > I wonder where from the name Rauwolfia serpentina came, as can be seen > in many old edition of text books, and also in - > http://kbd.kew.org/kbd/detailedresult.do?id=152609 , yet didn't find any > mention in http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-176968 ? > > > > Species : Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Benth. ex Kurz, ; For. Fl. Br. Burma > 2: 171 (1877). > > Habit & Habitat : herb, plant height 2 feet avg., wild & cultivated > > Date : 25-07-2009 & 27-07-2009 > > Place : Garalgacha (Hooghly) > > ID help : http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sarpagandha.html > > > > Thank you & Regards, > > > > Surajit Koley > > > > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke
