Nees came to my mind also. I have been working on this for last one hour or so. A name after Nees should take form neesianum, neesiana, neesianus or neesii (and in fact used for many genera), but I wonder whether i can be dropped in this case where the name of the person ends in a consonant.
* -- 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 Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > by the way, he never came to India or worked on Indian plants. Will > someone name the plant after him in that case? > Pankaj > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > May be it was to honour Nees, a botanist... > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gottfried_Daniel_Nees_von_Esenbeck > > With regards > > > > Vijayasankar > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> I am not sure, but NESO means island or somethign related to island. > >> May be it was found on some island. :p...the names suggests its based > >> on the name of a place most probably. > >> Regards > >> > >> Pankaj > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Dear friends, > >> > > >> > 1) Can somebody help me know the derivation of the epithet - neesanum > >> > (context: Zingiber neesanum) > >> > - could it be derived from regional name in Maharashtra ? > >> > - in Shrikant ji's FOS and as also put at FOI, the regional name In > >> > Maharashtra is nisam निसम > >> > > >> > 2) Is Z. neesanum endemic to Western Ghats of Maharshtra and Goa ? > >> > What is the Konkani name (in Goa) ? > >> > > >> > > >> > Regards. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > >
