Satish ji Botanical Code allows both, though names ending with -aceae and based on the name of a genus are to be preferred.
-- 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 Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Balkar Singh <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Sir mine also got name now > > On 1/15/12, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Very nice upload > > Family : Compositae. > > (I am surprised to know that" The plant list" mentions the name as > > Compositae rather than Asteraceae. I know both are same; which should be > > used then or latest one? > > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> *Chaetoseris hastata* (Wall. ex DC.) C.Shih, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 29(5): > >> 404 (1991) > >> syn: *Lactuca hastata* Wall. ex DC.; *Cicerbita* *cyanea* var. > *hastata* > >> (Wall. > >> ex DC.) Beauverd > >> > >> Tall perennial herb up to 2 m tall glabrescent below, glandular > pubescent > >> above especially in the inflorescence; leaves up to 30 cm long, petiole > >> somewhat winged, blade pinnatifid with large terminal lobe, upper > >> progressively smaller; heads bhluish-purple, 18-22 mm long, in panicles, > >> on > >> nodding peduncles; outer involucre bracts about half as long as inner > >> ones, > >> bristly hairy; florets 10-30; achenes elliptic or obovate, 6 mm long > >> (including beak), with beak white as long as dark brown body; pappus 5-6 > >> mm > >> long, dirty white. > >> > >> The plant looks similar in appearance to Prenanthes brunoniana but > latter > >> has only 3-5 florets in the head and achenes are not beaked. > >> > >> Common in Chakrata area growing among shrubs. Photographed in September. > >> > >> -- > >> 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/ > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Dr Satish Phadke > > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
