Many thanks Gurcharan ji for the clarity. Species of *Utricularia* always confuse me, not really comfortable with the subtle differences among them. Shrikant ji's new edition of Flowers of Sahyadri has taken into consideration the updates at The Plants List; ... yet it has separate entries for these *U. purpurascens* and *U. graminifolia*. Normally, I follow The Plants List; in case of plants endemic to India, I put a query at eFI to know whether we are following the updated treatments. Many thanks once again.
Regards. Dinesh On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Dinesh ji > One may prefer to treat U. purpurascens Graham as distinct species both > for local (endemic taxon) or other reasons, but there are very few genera > which have been revised on world-wide basis, and Utricularia is one such > example: > > Taylor, P. 1989. The genus Utricularia---A taxonomic monograph. Kew > Bull., Addit. Ser. <http://www.tropicos.org/Publication/2447> 14: 1–724. > > I am no fan of The Plant List, because I have already sent them seven > lists of corrections, but one should decide each entry on its merit. One of > the big omissions of The Plant List has been that family Onagraceae has > been revised in 2007 by World-renowned authors, but The Plant List > people (2010 publication) do not know about this very important publication > and The List has entries of names published in 1964, but not those > published in 2007, although both have P. Raven as common author. The GRIN > on the other hand has this incorporated even in February 2009 update. > > I find no reason to cling to U. purpurascens Graham, in light of above > monograph and the fact 2011 publication of Flora of China also follows it, > to treat U. purpurascens Graham as synonm of U. graminifolia. > > > > -- > 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 Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Many thanks Garg ji for resurfacing this post; and apologies too, for not >> updating it with Navendu's response to me on Oct 2: >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Not all the things on plant list are accurate which is why they have a >> confidence level for every synonym. These two are very different plants. >> >> navendu >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> Please consider the query resolved; am happy and convinced with Navendu's >> clarification. >> >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 3:15 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please. >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >>> Date: 30 September 2012 17:29 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:132916] QUERY :: Utricularia graminifolia AND >>> purpurascens >>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Shrikant Ingalhalikar <[email protected]>, Navendu >>> Page <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> Would like to know whether *Utricularia purpurascens* is treated as a >>> synonym of *U. graminifolia*, as put at The Plants List. >>> Shrikant ji's Flowers of Sahyadri lists both these species separately. >>> Have been considering *Utricularia purpurascens *as an endemic of the >>> Western Ghats. >>> *U. graminifolia *is found to be distributed widely. >>> >>> Regards. >>> >>> Dinesh >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >>> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >>> alphabetically & place-wise): >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >>> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >>> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >>> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1980 members >>> & 1,33,000 messages on 30/9/12) or Efloraofindia website: >>> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >>> of more than 7500 species). >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > --
