Dinesh Ji,

In one of my earlier post i have been informed, " ....gender of the
specific epithet should follow the gender of the generic name... ", this
plant, *Cerbera odollam,* seems to be not following the  ICBN guideline!


Regards,

surajit



On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote:

> Many thanks Vijayasankar ji for the ID.
> ... need to handle this fruit with care. Contains poison ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerbera_odollam
> Regards.
> Dinesh
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Vijayasankar 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Surajit ji, it looks like *Cerbera odollam* (Apocynaceae).
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Vijayasankar Raman
>> National Center for Natural Products Research
>> University of Mississippi
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, surajit koley <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sir,
>>>
>>> My colleague, Mr. Arnab Banerji, took this fruit from his mother to show
>>> me and confirm its ID. His mother who visited 
>>> Sundarban<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundarbans> last
>>> week collected this fruit there and have been informed that this is a
>>> SUNDARI (Bengali) fruit.
>>>
>>> The book, "Plant Groups", informs SUNDARI tree is *Heritiera minor* Roxb.,
>>> while 'The Plant List' informs it is *Heritiera minor* (Gaertn.) 
>>> Roxb<http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2846324>.
>>> which in turn is a synonym of *Heritiera fomes* 
>>> Buch.-Ham<http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2846309>
>>> .
>>>
>>> A description of the above is available at -
>>> http://www.biosearch.in/publicOrganismPage.php?id=113614
>>>
>>> I attach three views of the same fruit, which is compressed like a
>>> "litti" <http://nishamadhulika.com/files/Litti_Chokha_469434668.jpg>,
>>> but one face is slightly convex while the opposite face is a bit concave at
>>> the middle ridge. The third view is a side view.
>>>
>>> Is this *Heritiera fomes* Buch.-Ham. fruit?
>>>
>>> Species : UNKNOWN
>>> Habit & Habitat : Mangrove tree
>>> Date : collected on 7/9/12, photographed on 11/9/12
>>> Place : West Bengal
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> surajit
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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