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"TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!"
Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
Research Associate
Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
Department of Habitat Ecology
Wildlife Institute of India
Post Box # 18
Dehradun - 248001, India
I again have one VERY SIMPLE question as usual:
Which alba are you talking of:
Bauhinia alba Hort. (this is a cultivar not a species)
OR
Bauhinia alba Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
For your information, there is a species called Bauhinia alba and then
there is a cultivated variety called Bauhinia variegata 'Alba'. When
following any plant name from GRIN full name is to be checked.
As far as I can make out GRIN is talking about the cultivated variety
so please do not misinterpret the informations.
I assume more than 80% of people here are not taxonomists so its not a
big deal as they tend to miss the technical details of it.
Though I may be wrong!!
Regards
Pankaj
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?6602
Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy
In this GRIN writes, 'hort.' as "hortulanorum (Latin): of gardeners,
signifying that the name was first used in gardens and was later
published without the name of its originator."
Can you please tell me if it relates with cultivated varieties or not.
Because I still have doubts about the synonymy of this species.
Bauhinia alba Buch.-Ham. should be a distinct species. Why will GRIN
not use a proper author citation and write B. alba as B. alba hort..
They cant make such silly mistakes.
Regards
Pankaj