Yes Pankaj ji I have written about such situations many a times on this group. I hope it soon picks up.
-- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Dinesh sir, > > There is one technical issue here. You cant write, "Hibiscus > hispidissimus (syn. H. furcatus, H. aculeatus)". > > Why? > > Because, the reprint and your link uses some words like "non Willd." > and "non Walter". So it means these two names (H. furcatus & H. > aculeatus) are being given by Walter and Willdenow for other taxa and > they are being validly used. So your writing this way means you have > merged three different species in one, which is not the case here. > > So now we have three names here. The above plant being: > > Hibiscus hispidissimus Griff., Not. Pl. Asiat. 4: 521 (1854). > Synonyms: > Hibiscus aculeatus Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 206 (1832) (non Walter 1788) (nom. > illeg.) > Hibiscus furcatus Roxb. ex DC., Prodr. 1: 448 (1824) (non Willdenow) > (nom. illeg.) > > nom. illeg. means name is illegitimate according to the ICBN's > Priority of Publication (Article 11), i.e., wrong, because, there are > other two plants accepted with the same two names but given by two > different authors. Those names are as follows: > > Hibiscus furcatus Willd., Enum. Pl. [Willdenow] 2: 736 (1809). > > Hibiscus aculeatus Walter, Fl. Carol. [Walter] 177 (1788). > > So the solution: > > If you dont wish to write the original citation like most of the > taxonomists do, then, in the simplest way it can be written as: > > Hibiscus hispidissimus [syn. H. furcatus (not the originally > described), H. aculeatus (not the originally described)]. > > or > > Hibiscus hispidissimus [syn. H. furcatus (non Willdenow), H. aculeatus > (non Walter)] > > Hope this is understandable. > > Regards > Pankaj > > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India >
