Thanks a lot, Tapas ji, for the detailed inputs and analysis
On Tue 18 Sep, 2018, 1:33 AM Tapas Chakrabarty, <tchak...@gmail.com> wrote: > The identity is okay but there is problem with regard to fixing the > correct name. > Govaerts et al. in World Checkl. Bibl. Eubohorb. 3: 937. 2000 treated > *Givotia moluccana > *(L.) Sreem. as the accepted name and the treatment by Jarvis (2007) in > the book Order out of Chaos supported this: > > *Croton moluccanus* Linnaeus, *Species Plantarum *2: 1005. 1753. > > "Habitat in Zeylona, Moluccis." > > Lectotype (Prain in *Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew *1918: 67. 1918): Herb. > Hermann 1: 33, No. 346 (BM-000594464). > *Note: *Specific epithet spelled "moluccanum" in the protologue. = *Givotia > moluccana *(L.) Sreem. > > However, Balakrishnan & Chakrabarty (2007) follower the treatment of > Radcliffe-Smith as follows: > *Givotia rottleriformis *Griff. in Calcutta J. Nat. Hist. 4: 88. 1844] ex > Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: 24, t. 1889. 1852; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. > India 5: 395. 1887; Radcl.-Sm. in Kew Bull. 22: 504. 1968. > > They noted: Sreemadhavan (Taxon 24: 696. 1975) made the new combination > *Givotia > moluccana* (L.) Sreem. based on *Croton moluccanum* L., Sp. Pl. 1005. > 1753, excl. ref. Burman. Radcliffe-Smith (Kew Bull. 22: 504. 1968) > rejected the name *Croton moluccanum* as nomen confusum, since the > reference to Burman given by Linnaeus could not belong to this species. > Hence, > the earlier validly published name is adopted here. > > Now, an examination of the images of the type materials reveals that the > designation of lectotype by Prain still contains more than one specimen and > this may be treated as the First-step of lectotypification (Art. 9.17; > Turland et al. 2018). However, as the situation is indeed very complicated > and the matter needs physical re-examination of all the original Linnaean > materials, it is better for the present to accept the name suggested by > Radcliffe-Smith and call this as *Givotia rottleriformis *Griff. ex Wight. > > Thank you. > > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:07 PM tsp kumar <tspkuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Shrikant ji >> regards >> tspkumar >> >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 7:12 PM J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks, Shrikant ji. >>> >>> On 17 September 2018 at 19:01, Shrikant Ingalhalikar < >>> shrikant.ingalhali...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Givotia moluccana >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg >>> >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >>> >>> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >>> >>> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >>> world- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or >>> Efloraofindia >>> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >>> database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 >>> are directly displayed). >>> >>> The whole world uses my Image Resource >>> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >>> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >>> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >>> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >>> >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
