Trees of Mumbai

[Gurcharan Singh]

Trees of Mumbai was published in 1999 in which R R Fernandez on page 174 proposed the combination Morinda coreia var. tomentosa (Hook.f) R R Fernandez, ignoring the earliest basonym Heyn ex Roth. Perhaps this publication may provide clue to nomenclature of the genus in India. Any body having access may help. 

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[vip...@gmail.com]

Attaching a scan from said book.

 

Best wishes, Viplav

2011/5/27 Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com>

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks a lot Viplav ji

That solves a lot of problems

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[Anand Kumar Bhatt]

Incidentally I have got a copy of the book, and I was really distressed to see the quality of the photos. Some rank amateur with a cheap camera has taken the photographs. The camera it seems was purchased by BNHS for this purpose only. BNHS will be well advised to change the plates in the next edition if at all there is one. They should hire the services of a professional. However the work would be for the entire year, so better that they do it now. The bok is no patch on some other books like Pradeep Krishan's book on Delhi trees and Shrikant's on Pune trees. 

ak

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Anand Ji

Please can i know you are talking about which book,,
because the work done by R.R. Fernandez is purely taxonomic work
compare to others which are for the layman, the book quoted in your
statement...
Fernandez's book is actually his Ph.D. work (1950)..
that time hardly any good cameras were available..... but if you see
the plates they are quite good to identify the trees..
and this book is nothing to do with BNHS.

> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/>(NEW PHOTOS HAVE BEEN ADDED ON 15

> March 2011.)
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> Ten most common surnames of Indians: Singh, Kumar, Sharma, Patel, Shah,
> Lal, Gupta, Bhat, Rao, Reddy. Cheers!
>

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes

Each book has its own merits and we should judge them by their respective utilities. The same is true of say the Trees of Delhi, which is good for common man and even we the botanists for identification, but if we want to use it for compiling our eFlora, it may not be of much use as compared to Flora of Delhi or other such books. Let us enjoy getting whatever information we can . Trees of Mumbai, after all solved our problem of Morinda Taxonomy in India.

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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
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[Anand Kumar Bhatt]

 I was mentioning 'Trees of Mumbai' by almeida and Chaturvedi which has ben published by BNHS in 2006. I was confused by the similarity of title. I never meant Fernandez's book. I stand by my views on Almeida's work.

ak