Vijayasankar ji, many thanks for the pointer towards author citation ... BUT am a little nervous about getting into it (ideally need not, with so many friends around me with clear knowledge). Yet would rather take someone's help in this regard who will provide me with this data for every species that I post here. Hopefully some friend(s) will come forward.
Pankaj. many thanks for setting right the thoughts about "current" name ... will soon incorporate it into my notes along with stress on synonyms (and basionym). And thanks too for the ilex name ... will add it. Regards. Dinesh On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com>wrote: > It looks good, Dinesh ji. > I strongly suggest you to include author citation for all botanical names, > incl. accepted names, basionyms, and synonyms. The (author) names should be > in abbreviated form following Brummitt & Powell's book "Authors of Plant > Names" or the related database. I earlier suggested the same for FOI site as > well. > > pl also include family name for all taxa. > > at later stage, you may also like to provide the occurrence and > distribution, brief description (not a technical one), local uses etc. for > the benefit of users :) > > Regards > > Vijayasankar Raman > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi > > > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar > <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thats going to be nice and informative. I will have a proper look >> after my deadline. >> There is no need to write CURRENT before names. >> Why? >> Because there is no current and previous name, there is just one name >> to a plant. When you say basionym then it means it is the name on >> which other name is based. >> Synonyms could be Synonyms and Basionyms. You may point on that. >> You can also say Ilex leaved Acanthus as the name of the plant itself >> suggests. Holly is the common name for Ilex (ilex).... >> Just a few thought... >> Regards >> Pankaj > > >
