[Taxacom] Which is accepted name Acacia modesta Wall.or Senegalia modesta (Wall.) P. J. H. Hutter

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

Well, obviously there are shortcomings in The Plant List,
but that is a point that was already made earlier. And as
I pointed out earlier, for mosses it appears to consist
exclusively of errors.

So it looked safe enough to leave this aside, and take
the question at face value. In this case the 'error' is much 
less serious than in other cases. There are no copying 
errors and both names may be used (they are not 
illegitimate, or otherwise unavailable for use). In this case 
there are two "accepted names" because two different 
databases have been used: Tropicos and ILDIS. The 
latter is a quality database (http://www.ildis.org/about/),
but IIRC has not been updated for a long time, so it is not 
surprising that it holds an older taxonomic viewpoint. In 
addition The Plant List-entry on Senegalia modesta 
explicitly provides a link to the basionym, so the reader 
has all information he might expect at hand. As such things 
go, it is easy to point out entries in The Plant List which are 
ten times worse, and it has already been established that 
there are errors.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Kirk" <P.Kirk at kew.org>
To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Which is accepted name Acacia modesta Wall.or 
Senegalia modesta (Wall.) P. J. H. Hutter


>I think the point here is that the application of names is determined by 
>types and that in the Plant [Check-]List, assuming the intention is to 
>adopt a single taxonomy (as is the case for all checklist, otherwise it 
>would be just a list of names - i.e. a nomenclator), to include two 
>different names based on the same type is an error ... one of many 
>according to Gurcharan. Or am I missing something?
>
> The other Paul ... :-)
> ________________________________________
> From: Taxacom [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Paul van 
> Rijckevorsel [dipteryx at freeler.nl]
> Sent: 11 October 2014 09:05
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Which is accepted name Acacia modesta Wall. or 
> Senegalia modesta (Wall.) P. J. H. Hutter
>
> Well, as a general rule, the accepted name depends on
> the taxonomy adopted.
>
> In this case, if a traditional sense of the genus Acacia is
> adopted, the name Acacia modesta may be used. If a
> modern circumscription of Acacia is adopted, then the
> name Senegalia modesta would be correct.
>
> Unfortunately, lists such as The Plant List (or GRIN) don't
> give out such underlying information. This is a regrettable
> limitation, but it comes with the format chosen.
>
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gurcharan Singh" <singhg45 at gmail.com>
> To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 10:57 PM
> Subject: [Taxacom] Which is accepted name Acacia modesta Wall. or 
> Senegalia
> modesta (Wall.) P. J. H. Hutter
>
>
>> Dear members
>> Perhaps you can help me in knowing the accepted name
>>
>> GRIN is straight forward Senegalia modesta (Wall.) P. J. H. Hutter as
>> accepted name and Acacia modesta Wall. as synonym.
>>
>> The Plant List considers both as accepted names
>>
>> A. modesta Wall. as accepted name with two synonyms A. dumosa Roxb. and 
>> A.
>> obovata Roxb.
>>
>> Senegalia modesta (Wall.) P. J. H. Hutter as accepted name, basionym 
>> again
>> ignored for no assigned reasons.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/
>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/