Surajit ji
Perhaps it is better to ignore The Plant List totally for unresolved names
(as I have mentioned many times that it is their misfortune if they are not
able to understand a particular taxon). Even for plants which they claim to
have resolved, many of their conclusions or just laughable. In some cases
they list a name (combination) as accepted name but don't list basionym as
synonym. Many names are totally missing from the The Plant List. In other
cases some species are shown in one genus others in different one. Perhaps
I am tired of pointing out to them, so I simply ignore.
Trichosanthes dioica Roxb. is well established name:
http://www.phcogrev.com/article.asp?issn=0973-7847;year=2012;volume=6;issue=11;spage=61;epage=67;aulast=Kumar
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?314328
So just enjoy your PATOL
It is better to compare GRIN and Flora of China entries with the Plant List
and if there is any conflict better follow the former.
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:57 PM, surajit koley <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Good morning
>
> The Plant List is amazing! One of the most popular veg. in West Bengal is
> PATOL, yet The Plant List reckons it as an unresolved name -
> http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2433209 !!! Why? Is it because
> there is another *T. dioica* -
> http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2433208, and that too
> unresolved?
>
> Well, whatever the Latin name of this plant is it is PATOL for sure. You
> can eat it fried, make curry with potato - ALU-PATOL, prepare delicious
> PATOLER DOLMA. And if your are invited to any Bengali marriage ceremony the
> menu certainly will start with LUCHI (PURI) and PATOL-BHAJA. You can take
> breakfast with POLTA and MURI, POLTA is bitter tasted leaves of this plant
> fried with BESAN as TELEBHAJA !!!
>
> According to The Bengal Plants, Prain, p 517, :-
>
> *Trichosanthes dioica*
> Roxb<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?314328>.;
> F.I. iii. 701; F. B. I. ii. 609; E.D.T. 586.
> In all the provinces.
> A rather extensive climber. *Hind.* PALWAL; *Beng.* PATOL; *Uriya* PATAL.
>
> The photos were recorded yesterday, a cultivated species in Hooghly.
>
> Thank you & Regards,
>
> surajit
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