QUERY: Leucas: lavandulifolia AND lavandulaefolia

[Dinesh Valke]

Dear friends,

Is Leucas lavandulaefolia Rees. synonym of Leucas lavandulifolia Sm. ?


Regards.
Dinesh

[Gurcharan Singh]

Dinesh ji

The author of binomial is Sm. and not Rees. (Please let me know where you found Rees; Rees was author of Publication (Encyclopedia-Cycl.) where this species was published.

as for as -ae and -i are concerned, the recent ruling of code requires that 'ae' in the epithet should be changed  to 'i' routinely. 

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[Dinesh Valke]

Many thanks Gurcharan ji for resolving my query.

I remember about the ae to i ruling that you had clarified earlier.
The query arose in my mind when no mention of Rees. is found in The Plants List and NPGS/GRIN.

There are quite many results found on searching "Leucas lavandulaefolia Rees." in Google, especially reflect in pharmacological whitepapers at reputed sites.
Tropicos too seems to show it ... http://tropicos.org/Name/17600129

Rees. also finds an entry in two reference books:
1) Indian Medicinal Plants - An illustrated dictionary - by C P Khare
2) The Useful Plants of India - NISCAIR


Regards.
Dinesh

[Gurcharan Singh]

Dinesh ji

The Plant List entry of this species on clicking TROPICOS below leads to this entry

http://www.tropicos.org/Name/17602478 

The reason that author of publication is Rees, and Smith the author of this binomial published in former'r publication must have led to this confusion.

-- 
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/ 

[Dinesh Valke]

Many many thanks Gurcharan ji for resolving my query.
Regards.
Dinesh