ENOUGH ALREADY... ON this later thread ther was a lot of discussion on the anmes AMBROMA versus ABAROMa and Surajit would not let go ... I fi=nally did some digging... googling for sure... and found the following I quote " Surajit
Yes looking for malvaceae and abroma... brings up many pages ... recognizable among them in the first twenty listings often is my writeup from september... ...so that's no help... but to day my irritation with this AMBROMA and ABROIMA was piqued enough... I did some searches... like history of Abroma august and many inthis vein... BUT then googled for ...."who named abroma /ambroma augusta originally? " NO HELP and many searches in this vein regarding who named it, who changed the name etc... 2nd set of googling for ...."who named abroma /ambroma augusta originally? " and hit pay dirt, got the following : I QUOTE : " *Abroma Notes* *Malvaceae Info (Home) <http://www.malvaceae.info/index.html> Index to Genera <http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/index.html>* * Synonymy of Abroma<http://www.malvaceae.info/Synonymy/Synonymy.php?file=Abroma> * *Abroma angustum (L.) Murray* *Introduction* *Abroma (the persistent orthographic variant Ambroma is due to Linnaeus fils ) is a genus belong to tribe Byttnerieae and subfamily Byttnerioideae of the angiosperm family Malvaceae sensu lato.The genus was introduced in 1776 by Jacquin, based on Linnaeus's Theobroma augusta, but renaming the species as Abroma fastuosa. The correct combination was subsequently made by Linnaeus fils and Murray. Abroma, being based on the Greek βρομα (broma), is neuter, and while the feminine gender has generally been used for epithets in this genus, they should be corrected to neuter.* *Abroma is generally considered a monotypic genus, with the sole species being Abroma augustum. However there are conflicting chromosome number reports (2n = 16, 20, 22, 24) for this species, so the possibility that it represents a species complex remains open.* *Abroma angustum (L.) L.f. **[image: Description: Chinese] ang tian lian* *Synonyms of Abroma augustum include Abroma alata Blanco, Abroma angulataLam., Abroma angulosa Poir., Abroma communis Blanco, Abroma elongata Lam., Abroma fastuosa Gaertn., Abroma fastuosa Jacq., Abroma fastuosa Vent., Abroma molleDC., Abroma mollis DC., Abroma obliquum C.Presl, Abroma wheleri Retz. and Theobroma augusta L..* *Malvaceae Info (Home) <http://www.malvaceae.info/index.html> Index to Genera <http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/index.html>* * Synonymy of Abroma<http://www.malvaceae.info/Synonymy/Synonymy.php?file=Abroma> * *(c) 2011 Stewart R. Hinsley"* *http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Abroma/Abroma.php* *when I searched for ambroma versus abroma...* " end quote AND WHAT IS ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT YOU ASK? ar per n article in Taxon <http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=taxon> Homonyms, Paranyms and Orthographic Variants Hj. Eichler Taxon Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1963), pp. 15-20 orthographic variant is a DIFFERENT SPELLING FORM OF A VALIDLY PUBLISHED NAME.... READ IT AT http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1216675?uid=3738256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101126705337 * SINCE IT WAS LINNAEUS"S SON the fils means son... (or a father whichever ) I take it was perhaps the son... but could also be the father since he was alive during the first description of this plant.*.. I AM DEFINITELY DONE WITH THIS >>>>> THIS IS BEGINNING TO BORE ME>>>> I"LL DO ONE THING FOR SAKE OF COMPLETION (esp since my first submission keeps coming up on googling) I'll copy paste what I wrote here to that thread and also put a link to this SURJAIT's thread there ... SAYONARA TO ABROMA....AMBROMA .... USHA DI " end quote Surajit's thread is at: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!search/abroma$20surajit/indiantreepix/JHioQNsI0ws/t34JcxnzPUAJ OK the end -- Usha di ===========
