---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dr Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> Date: 21 February 2014 09:16 Subject: Re: Why Amomum (1753) rejected Zingiber (1754) accepted To: Pudji Widodo <[email protected]> Cc:
Dear Pudji 1. Amomum Roxb. and Zingiber Mill. are two well recognised genera with numerous species each. 2. Amomum Roxb. is conserved against over the earlier homonym *Amomum* L., nom. rej. (and as such Amomum L. is not rejected against Zingiber Mill.). The reason for this is that when Amomum L. was first described by Linnaeus in his Flora Zeylanica (1747) where he classified three species in the Monandria monogynia. Six years after the first description, Linnaeus (1753) added a fourth species. These species have all been transferred to other genera, namely Aframomum, Elettaria and Zingiber (Burtt and Smith 1972), and Amomum Roxb. has been conserved with Amomum subulatum Roxb. as its conserved type (McNeill et al., 2006, appendix III). 3. Zingiber Mill. conserved with this spelling against the original spelling "*Zinziber*". 4. If your question was pertaining to why Amomum zingiber L. was ignored while accepting Zingiber officinale Roscoe, the reason is that Linnaeus had described this species under genus Amomum but latter transferred to Zingiber, where binomial Zingiber zingiber (L.) H. Karst. turned out to be a tautonym and as such rejected. This appears closely similar to tomato case where similar case resulted in Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. was declared as Nom. Cons. but with species transferred back to Solanum old Linnaean name Solanum lycopersicum got reinstated. I hope this should help. Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018 Phone: 01125518297; Mobile: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Pudji Widodo <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I would like to ask you. Why > Amomum L., Sp. Pl.: 1 (1753), nom. rej. > Zingiber Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4: s.p. (1754), nom. > cons. > > > Infact in ICNafp Principle > III The nomenclature of a taxonomic > group is based upon priority of publication. > Thank you > > Yours Sincerely > Pudji Widodo > Fakultas Biologi, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman > Jl. Dr Soeparno 63 > Purwokerto 53122, INDONESIA > Phone (62) 281 638794, Fax (62) 281 631700, mobile:085716518425 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > -- 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 (largest in the world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (around 2250 members & 1,80,700 messages on 31/1/14) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
