[Taxacom] Now Acacia and Vachellia confusion
Gurcharan Singh
singhg45 at gmail.com
Fri May 22 00:34:48 CDT 2015
The Plant list was designed out to help botanists pick out the accepted
names and synonym as the opening line on home page indicates '1,064,035
scientific plant names of species rank. Of these 350,699 are accepted'
Every time I visit the database to know the accepted name, I find the
database more and more confused, and I have communicated most to the
authorities in 20 plus communication.
This time trying to find accepted name for our common species here in
Delhi, I find *Acacia* *nilotica* subsp. *indica* (Benth.) Brenan is
an accepted name
*Acacia* *nilotica* (L.) Delile is an accepted name but unfortunately
although all other subspecies are listed, but not subsp. nilotica
And now look under Vachellia,
*Acacia* *nilotica* (L.) Delile is an accepted name
Not only basionym *Mimosa* *nilotica* L. is missing from the synonyms but
there is no mention of eight subspecies recognised under under Acacia
nilotica.
Where is The Plant List leading
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
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