Thanks, Singh ji, for pointing out. Relevant extracts to efi are as below: "*Materials and methods *
Names that have been applied to Indian Cucurbitaceae<http://ptp.pensoft.eu/external_details.php?type=1&query=Cucurbitaceae>were taken from Jeffrey (1980, 1981), Chakravarty (1982), and an unpublished compilation provided by Peter Raven (the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis) and Kanchi Gandhi (Harvard University Herbaria, Boston). We also checked floras of neighboring or near-by countries, especially Naithani (1990), the *Flora of China* treatment (Lu et al. 2011), and numerous publications by De Wilde and Duyfjes (cited in our reference list). Information on the types (collector and location) of the 400 names was obtained from protologues, most of them available online. For nomenclatural types from India, we updated the state in which the respective specimen was collected to agree with modern administrative units. Taxonomic or nomenclatural synonyms were obtained by checking relevant post-1980 treatments (cited under the respective genus or species). Distributions within India (by state) and outside India (by country or continent) were taken mostly from Chakravarty (1946, 1959, 1982), up-dated from floristic treatments, such as Lu et al. (2011) and the work of De Wilde and Duyfjes (e.g., 2004a, b, 2006a, b, c, 2007a, b, 2008a, 2010, and as cited below). The links to images lead to type specimen images from various herbaria or the efloraofindia website ( https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ ). This website has been created for documenting the flora of India and currently has a database of 7500 species and over one million pictures at its e-group links. " "*Conclusion * One of the great technical advances of recent years that are positively affecting taxonomy is the easy exchange of photos. Even simple snap shots of living plants (and certainly type images) greatly facilitate deciding the identity of a particular plant, and we hope that our links to the efloraofindia (https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ ) will proof useful. The greatest caveat concerning our checklist is that the geographic range information inside India is not directly based on specimens, but is more or less copied from Chakravarty (1982) and thus surely incomplete. It is to be hoped that the digization of Indian material in the future will help achieve a deeper study of the Cucurbitaceae<http://ptp.pensoft.eu/external_details.php?type=1&query=Cucurbitaceae>of India. " After that there are 24 efloraofindia links under different species leave aside flowersofindia citations. That's great. Kudos & thanks to The Pillars<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/pillars-of-efloraofindia>, Moderators <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/moderators>, Major contributors<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/major-contributors>& other members. On 6 May 2013 21:42, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends > It is really encouraging to know that efloraofindia and flowersofindia are > being now increasingly cited in scientific publication. It means an added > responsibility for use, to make our database updated and as accurate as > possible. > Congratularions to all members. > > > http://www.pensoft.net/journals/phytokeys/article/3948/the-cucurbitaceae-of-india-accepted-names-synonyms-geographic-distribution-and-information-on-images-and-dna-sequences > > Thanks Prof. Pandey for updated list of Indian cucurbitaceae. > > -- > 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/ > -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2085 members & 1,53,000 messages on 30/4/13) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 8000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
