Thanks Gurcharan ji for sharing your thoughts. I think that was the approach Mr Shrikant ji Ingalhalikar had followed during his commendable study which resulted in the publication of his second book "Further flowers of Sahyadri" and he happily adds a page near the end of the book which gives the lists of flowers not included in the book. I wish and pray that he will come up with Still further flowers of Sahyadris which includes these and many more species which are even not there in the Floras of Maharashtra. I had experience to work with him in one of the field trip. He has such a dedication that when he gets the news that a particular species is flowering somewhere; he squeezes out time from his work takes out his car and driving himself far distances reaches the spot and catures it in his camera. We are happy to have him on the group to solve many mysteries. I hope and am sure many members of the group might have similar ideas Regards Dr Satish Phadke
2009/9/19 singhg . <[email protected]> > While actively involved in floristic research between 1969 to 1975, at the > end I could identify 80-90 percent of plants for Kashmir valley. With most > of these faded in memory lane in 34 years, and many more hidden in hard > covers of different herbaria; the best approach that I adopted then was to > find out how many species of a particular genus are reported, and how many I > have collected. I would note down the important features of those left, and > be on look out. Photography then was a expensive hobby, and one could not > think of clicking every plant met, have the film processed and get the > prints, and that too mostly black and white. Lucky to be able to photograph > which you needed to use in your thesis and then your book. > While this approach is a far cry for us in Indian Flora, I wish the > active members from Maharashtra (and I find there are many), Karnataka, > Kerala, TN and other places can try this approach, and be look out for > species which are reported from their area, but not represented on > Indiantreepix and Flowers of India. This should serve double purpose: your > interest in plants would be greately increased, you always have a goal, and > ultimately our databases will be enriched much more quickly. I selectively > take care to upload those species which are not in our databases. > Wishing you a happy photography > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College > University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018 > Phone: 011025518297; Mobile: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > > > -- http:// satishphadke.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
