Welcome to Citrus week. I have been asked to coordinate this discussion but felt a little out of my depth. Dr. Gurcharan Singh having agreed to supervise the proceedings I feel a little more relax. However mostly I will lead the exchanges related to nomenclature. Here I feel in my element. As an introduction to the topic of Citrus let me say that I truely believe that our discussion group has the potential to sort most of the nomenclatural confusion in regards to Citrus names in India. It will certainly take more than a week though. I have received messages telling me that people do not feel they can contribute because they are not experts. Everyone knows at least one language, that means one has the capacity to check facts using references. "Experts are people who know more and more about less and less". The two complement each other, so let's all work hard together. Here are selected references related to Citrus that will provide much basic & advanced information.
Background material available online. Wikipedia's Cultivated plant taxonomy < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivated_plant_taxonomy >. Wikipedia's Page on the 2009 ICNCP Code online < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomenclature_for_Cultivated_Plants>. Brickell, C.D. et al. (eds) (2009). "International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants" <http://www.actahort.org/chronica/pdf/sh_10.pdf>. *Scripta Horticulturae* (International Society of Horticultural Science) *10*: 1–184. ISBN<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number> 978-0-643-09440-6<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-643-09440-6> . < http://www.actahort.org/chronica/pdf/sh_10.pdf >. Referential material available online. Jorma Koskinen's Citrus Pages: < http://users.kymp.net/citruspages/botindex.html >. Each taxon illustrated and botanically identified. Robert Willard Hodgson's Horticultural Varieties of Citrus Chapter 4 of The Citrus Industry: < http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter4.html>. Often off line but keep trying. Lots of info about Indian cultivars. My cross-index of Citrus names: < http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Citrus.html > complements Jorma's botanical pages. My pages Malayalam index < http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Malayalam-index-new.html >. Tamil index and Notes pages < http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Tamil_index_new.html > & < http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Notes_Indian_names.html >. The "specific and complementary" references listed at the bottom of these pages will either serve many Indian names, most in romanised form or provide facilities to translate, transcribe or transliterate those names. Of course this does not exclude your favourite reference books. Now we are equiped to do the hard work. ....more coming
