Garg ji, This is matter of opinion only. My present comment and identification as above is based on the following publication: Chakrabarty, T. & Balakrishnan, N. P. 2015. Reinstatement of four taxa synonymized under *Breynia quadrangularis *with proposal for a new subgenus *Hemisauropus *(Phyllanthaceae). *J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. *39(3-4): 415-419.
We have one advantage over them. Our publication is based on the study of available specimens in the major Indian herbaria while their paper is based on studies on old gatherings available in the European herbaria. Thus we are in a better position to assess the range of variation exhibited by the relevant taxa. Welzen & al. never visited India. I am giving an example here. In 2014, I. M. Turner jeoperdized the nomenclature of Terminalia sect. Pentaptera by removing the name T. elliptica Willd. applied by Gangopadhyay & Chakrabarty, 1992 for an assortment of species variously treated in Indian floras and treatments as T. alata, T. crenulata, T. coriacea and T. tomentosa and adding the same to Terminalia arjuna as a synonym and proposing to conserve the name T. arjuna against T. elliptica. I wish Turner would have seen the specimens in the Indian herbaria before arriving at such a conclusion! I will come back to you as soon as my paper in this regard is published! Regards, Tapas. On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:16 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Tapas ji. > But Phylogenetic reconstruction prompts taxonomic changes in *Sauropus*, > *Synostemon* and *Breynia* (*Phyllanthaceae* tribe *Phyllantheae*) by > P.C. van Welzen K. Pruesapan, I.R.H. Telford, H.-J. Esser , J.J. Bruhl- > Blumea 59, 2014: 77–94 gives as below: > > *Breynia quadrangularis* (Willd.) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012) 121. — > *Phyllanthus > quadrangularis* Willd. (1805) 585. — *Sauropus quadrangularis* (Willd.) > Müll.Arg. (1863) 73. — *Aalius quadrangularis* (Willd.) Kuntze (1891) > 591. — Type: Hb. Willdenow 17985 (holotype B-W; IDC microfiche 7440!), > India. > *Sauropus rigidus* Thwaites (1864) 284. — *Phyllanthus neo-rigidus* > Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2009) 715, non *P. rigidus* Tate. — *Breynia > rigida* (Thwaites) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012) 121. — Type: Thwaites CP > 2135 (holotype K; isotypes BM, CAL n.v., G, PDA n.v.), Sri Lanka (Ceylon). > *Sauropus compressus* Müll.Arg. (1866) 243. — *Aalius compressus* (Müll. > Arg.) Kuntze (1891) 591, as ‘compressa’. — *Sauropus quadrangularis* > (Willd.) Müll.Arg. var. compressus (Müll.Arg.) Airy Shaw (1972) 337. — > *Phyllanthus > indo-myanmarensis* Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2009) 715, non *P. compressus* > Müll.Arg. —* Breynia compressa* (Müll.Arg.) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012) > 120. — Syntypes: Hooker s.n., s.d. (G-DC n.v., IDC > microfiche DC herbarium 2489/5, K (2 sheets)), India, Sikkim, Regio Trop. > *Sauropus quandrangularis* (Willd.) Müll.Arg. var. *puberulus* Kurz > (1877) 350. — *Phyllanthus indo-myanmarensis* Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. var. > *puberulus* (Kurz) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2009) 715. — *Breynia > compressa *(Müll.Arg.) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. var. *puberulus* (Kurz) > Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012) 120. — Type: Kurz 1586 (holotype CAL n.v.), > Myanmar. > > Is there further change in the matter pl ? > > On 28 August 2016 at 17:03, Tapas Chakrabarty <tchak...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is *Breynia compressa* (Mull.Arg.) Chakrab. & N.P. Balakr. based on >> Sauropus compressus Mull.Arg. It is different and distinct from Breynia >> quadrangularis (J.G. Klein ex Willd.) Chakrab. & N. P. Balakr. (Basionym: >> Phyllanthus quadrangularis J.G. Klein ex Willd. = Sauropus quadrangularis >> (J.G. Klein ex Willd.) Mull.Arg.). >> >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Lalithamba Avadhanam < >> alalitha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> *Plant name: **Sauropus quadrangularis* (Willd.) Müll.Arg., *Linnaea >>> 32: 73. 1863.* >>> >>> *Ver.names:* Triple nerved lizard’s foot (Eng.); Tella vusirika (Tel.). >>> >>> *Family: * Phyllanthaceae >>> >>> *Description:* >>> >>> Erect shrubs 0.5-1 m tall, glabrous throughout; branchlets 4-angled. >>> Leaves alternate; stipules lanceolate; petiole 1-2 mm; leaf blade ovate, or >>> rounded, 1-2.5 × 0.5-2 cm, membranous, base rounded, apex rounded, >>> mucronate. Flowers unisexual, axillary, subtended by leaves. Male flowers >>> 2-3 in axils, 2-3 mm; calyx discoid, 1.5 mm in diam., 6-lobed; apex obtuse >>> or retuse; disk scales very short; anthers spreading. Female flowers: >>> Solitary, pedicels 0.5-1cm; lobes 5-7 mm in diam., 6-lobed, biseriate, >>> outer broadly ovate, inner shorter than outer, rotund; ovary turbinate, >>> apex truncate; styles 3, bifid at apex, lobes recurved. Capsules ovoid, >>> 4-6mm >>> across, woody when dry, with a lobed rim, seeds trigonous. >>> >>> *Habitat & location:* Limited to S.India. Rare. Found in the foot >>> hills. 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