Thanks a lot for the information, Pankaj ji
-- 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 Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > There was a project undertaken by Natural History Museum London, > called, The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project. Headed by Dr. > Charles Jarvis a very senior taxonomist, who happens to be on my > friend list. They came out with a book called, "Order Out of Chaos: > Linnaean Plant Names and Their Types". In this he provided information > on the status of Type Specimens of Linnaeus and of those he referred > and the species what he had described. The books gives the details of > type and lectotypes of all the taxa described by Linnaeus along with > their currently accepted names. According to the book, the currently > accepted name is Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem.. The book was > released in 2007 and I am yet to have a copy of it :(. > > IPNI does provide the synonyms as well as basionyms and in this > particular taxa, it claims Cucumis as basionym. If you check the > record history of the taxa then there are editings done by "BARKER". I > know Dr. Tina Barker at IPNI personally, so I may ask her, but as the > site claims, most probably, her answer will be same. > > Even JSTOR accepts Mukia as accepted name. > > http://plants.jstor.org/flora/ftea001827 (I am not sure if you can > open this link, I can because I am a member of it). > > Note that GRIN database claims that it was last updated in 2008, but > updation there may not mean updation in the synonymy but also any > other information on the webpage of particular species, that may > include other references. > > IPNI may be wrong, and so can be GRIN, but I trust Dr. Charles Jarvis and > JSTOR. > > I am not forcing my point here. I am giving my reference and you are > giving yours. We just need to check who is correct. Both have our > references to support our views. > > 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 >
