28042011VAI1 - Seeds for ID

Vijay Anand Ismavel

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May 1, 2011, 7:48:01 AM5/1/11

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Unidentified Seeds - on tree growing wild

Location: Makunda Christian Hospital campus, Karimganj District, Assam

Date: 28th April 2011

Makunda Seeds-7A.jpg

Neil Soares

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May 1, 2011, 7:56:49 AM5/1/11

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Hi,

They are the seeds of a species of Sterculia possibly Sterculia villosa.

Regards,

Neil Soares.

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H S

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May 1, 2011, 10:14:10 AM5/1/11

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Indeed Sterculia villosa Roxburgh ex Sm.

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deshmukh

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May 2, 2011, 9:53:47 AM5/2/11

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I feel it is Sterculia foetida

Suchita Deshmukh

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Mayur Nandikar

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May 2, 2011, 10:19:49 AM5/2/11

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Hello

May be Sterculia villosa but authority should be only Roxburgh

and HS ji Sterculia villosa Roxburgh ex Smith is should be placed as a heterotypic synonym.

That wht I think.

Thank you.

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Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar,
Research Student,
Department of Botany,
Shivaji University,
Kolhapur.

H S

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May 6, 2011, 10:02:26 AM5/6/11

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Yes Mr. Mayur

you are absolutely correct

Thanks

Gurcharan Singh

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May 6, 2011, 11:06:03 AM5/6/11

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Dear Mayur ji and H S

Perhaps I am not able to comprehend. The name Sterculia villosa was first proposed by Roxburgh in Hort. Bengal. 50. 1814, but is not accepted as it is nom. nud., the name having become legitimate after description was provided by Smith in Cycl. (Rees) 34: Sterculia no. 16. 1816, as such the name becomes S. villosa Roxburgh ex Sm with official date of publication as 1816.

Roxburgh evidently published detailed description only in 1832 in Fl. Ind. (Roxburgh) 3: 153 (-154). 1832 [Oct-Dec 1832]. I wonder then how Sterculia villosa Roxburgh, 1832 get precedence over Sterculia villosa Roxburgh ex Sm, 1816.

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