Thanks Gurcharan ji for this announcement. These 3 weeks of Asteraceae are certainly going to be exciting. All of us have many aster plants in our collections - whether from wilderness or garden. Looking forward.
I hope Rajdeo (Singh) ji reads this announcement and will contribute his knowledge during the weeks. Regards. Dinesh On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members > As announced earlier we are having Asteraceae Weeks, in three episodes in > May, June and July, 2013. After earlier discussions it has been decided to > have uploads under three categories: > May: Radiate heads (in which head looks like a flower with outer petals > (ray florets), and disc florets in center) > June: Discoid heads (with no petal like structure, only disc florets) > Junly: Ligulate heads (only ray florets, no disc in center) > > Realising the fact that some genera may have both radiate and discoid > heads, we will go by majority condition. To make it convenient for members > we will announce list of genera in advance, but would also be ready for > some mixing of uploads as we dis for grasses, sedges and rushes this month. > Asteraceae is a huge family, and we may expect large number of uploads. > Also the family is very well represented in both cold and warmer climates, > which usually have very distinct Flora. It, would as such would serve a > better purpose, if some experts volunteer to coordinate/help in > coordinating any of the three episodes on family Asteraceae. Poaceae, > Cyperaceae and Juncaceae episode was very fruitful because of involvement > of Manoj ji and Nayan ji. It is later on that we came to know of expertise > of Tanveer ji and Manish ji. The episode would have been much more useful, > if they had started interacting a bit earlier. > > I would request experts to volunteer for episode of their choice. If > there are two to three coordinators/experts for each episode, it would be > very useful.for tackling the great diversity within the family. > Requesting members to volunteer for coordination. > > -- > 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/ > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
