Flora of Panipat- Gomphrena haageana from a nursery in Panipat

[Balkar Arya]

Dear All

Gomphrena haageana

A Garden Annual Herb shot from a nursery in Panipat

pls validate

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Regards

Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

[Dr Pankaj Kumar]

That is very peculiar species name and so I just tried to look for
information why the plant has been named this way.
Actually the species name is to commemorate J.N. Haage (1926-78), a
German plant collector and seedsman.
Regards
Pankaj

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[Balkar Arya]

Thanks Pankaj Ji for details

[Gurcharan Singh]

Since the name ends in a vowel, -an is added after the person name instead of ian (for names ending in consonant), and then the usual gender ending -a, -um or -us as the case may be.

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[Pankaj Kumar]

According to me the issue is different sir.

Haagei could be one option when the word ends in a vowel. Orther such
examples are 'hegdei', 'maderoi' and 'rosei'

When Haagei is there it means Haage's Gomphrena, which in turn can be
ideally or wrongly perceived as the plant was originally collected by
Haage but described by someone else. Here 'Haage' is used as a 'Noun'.

Haageana means Haagean Gomphrena, which could mean, as beautiful as
Haage. Here 'Haage' is used as an 'Adjective'. Some other examples
are, 'weddelliana', 'congniauxiana' and 'wallichiana'.

It is then followed by 'a' or 'us' or 'um', to denote the gender.

In first case, the importance to the person is lessened but in second
case you are kind of admiring the person by giving a name after him.

Regards
Pankaj

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Pankaj ji

I never thought use of -ii or -i does lower the importance of a person. I thought it is personal choice of author to use the name as genitive (possessive) form (-hookeri) or adjective (-hookeriana). I can't imagine Iris of Hooker (Iris hookeri) is less decorative than Hooker Iris (Iris hookeriana).

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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/ 

[Pankaj Kumar]

I will give you another example.
Lets say Amit is Sumit's father. So if I say,
Amit's Sumit
or
Sumit is as intelligent as Amit.

then it does make a difference as first sentence is very casual but
second sentence is a praise. Similarly if you say "Hooker's Iris" and
then "Iris as handsome as Hooker", then there is a praise in second.
Botanically it doesnt change anything, but in grammar they are
different. :))

Regards
Pankaj

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Pankaj ji

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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/ 

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Great teacher!
Thank u Pankaj ji
Madhuri
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[JM Garg]

Gomphrena globosa as per another thread (with heading Chenopodia​ceae and Amaranthac​eae Week: BS12: Gomphrena globosa from Arya PG College Campus Panipat) from Balkar ji.

[J.M. Garg]

Here is the link to that thread.

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