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 >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > --
