Tapas Chakrabarty

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Can I designate a lectotype on the basis of literature?

I find that a Scientist in 2016 designated a lectotype of a name on the basis of literature, without actually examining the specimen (or its image) housed in a particular herbarium. I would like...

10 October 2019 9,251 2 View

Can you suggest me a good Publisher in India dealing with Ethnobotanical books?

I am at present finalizing my manuscript on the Ethnobotany of a paricular area in India based on my own research. Please suggest me a good publisher in this regard who can publish my book.

04 April 2019 626 8 View

Whether any Linnaean name has a holotype?

Recently I submitted a manuscript to a reputed journal relating to lectotypification of a Linnaean name. A reviewer corrected the manuscript by inserting the following sentence: "The plant...

12 December 2018 9,629 24 View

Is it mandatory that an epitype should match exactly with the lectotype specimen?

I submitted a manuscript on the lectotypification and epitypification of a name for publication in a journal. I designated an epitype for the name in accordance with Article 9.9. of the ICN...

10 October 2018 1,695 2 View

Whether a designated lectotype containing a mixed gathering should be regarded as an effective lectotypification?

An author in 1995 indicated the “type” of a name as Hermann s. n. (BM). This designation of the type is correctable to “Lectotype” as per the Article 9.10 of the Code (Turland & al., 2018)....

10 October 2018 2,718 1 View

Whether a single gathering containing two twigs mounted on a single board but with different barcodes should be regarded as isolectotypes?

While designating a lectotype for a name I find that a single gathering containing two twigs are mounted on a board have two different barcode numbers in a herbarium. I would like to know whether...

10 October 2018 9,475 1 View

Why RG is showing "Full text available" even for an article without uploaded Full text?

We can frequently notice the feature "Full text available" in RG. However, if you opt for downloading the said full text, you will be highly disappointed to find only the cover page of a...

09 September 2018 2,260 1 View

Can I designate a Holotype based on a digital image?

We are frequently designating Lectotypes for names of flowering plants on the basis of digital images of herbarium specimens examined by us deposited in recognized herbaria. Now I came across a...

05 May 2018 4,805 2 View

If I upload an unpublished manuscript in Research Gate and generate a DOI, whether this will be treated as an effective and valid publication?

Researchgate asking to generate a doi when an unpublished data id uploaded.

03 March 2018 1,233 12 View

Does Everyone in India Want to be a Scholarly Publisher?

Is it not unethical to pass derogatory remarks about a country and its researchers? The same has been done by Jeffrey Beall, University of Colorado Denver, Colorado ([email protected])...

08 August 2016 6,767 1 View

Should the scientific knowledge be locked up behind paywalls?

I am an independent researcher without any funding. Sometimes it becomes very difficult for me to get access to vital references and literature due to locked access by most publishers and this is...

01 January 1970 2,119 4 View

Can you include name changes and merger along with Plant Discoveries?

With the advent of molecular phylogenetics the name changes and Plant merger in a given year are almost equalling or even surpassing Plant Discoveries. We are getting comprehensive update of...

01 January 1970 1,919 11 View