Dear Gurinder ji I think it is reasonable and correct. We have long been estimating between 16000-18000 species
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/ On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:16 AM, gurinder goraya <[email protected]>wrote: > Dears, > > BSI's publication "Plant Discoveries" released on 05th June 2013 quotes > the following figures for plant wealth of India: > > Angiosperms : 17926 > Gymnosperms : 74 > Pteridophytes : 1267 > > I think this is latest official..... > > Regards, > > Dr. G. S. Goraya, IFS > Deputy Director General (Research) > Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, > New Forest P.O., *DEHRADUN* - 248 006. > (Uttarakhand, India) > > Ph. 0135 - 2757775 (O) > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:59:38 +0530 > Subject: [efloraofindia:175568] How many flowering plants are in India? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > We all must be grateful to Sir J.D.Hooker, who with his associate > taxonomists produced a masterpiece of work published as *‘Flora of > British India’* with its jurisdiction as British Indian Empire (India, > Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malayan Peninsula, Bhutan, > Tibet etc.). Herein, he described 14,312 species of flowering plants. > However, since its publication in 1872-1898, many new species and genera > have been added to the flora of present India alone. We, in India are still > not able to completely revise Hooker’s masterpiece to produce a national > flora while the countries as big and diverse as USSR, China, Australia etc > have completed their nation floras and much of the information are > available on the web. In fact we all use eFlora China as one of the most > reliable taxonomic resource in this forum. > > *The objective of posing this question in subject line is to know the > current situation about the number of flowering plants in India.* In my > lectures in Taxonomy courses it becomes embarrassing to me to say that > there are different estimates as variable as 15,000 species (Rao 1994), > 16,809 species (Karthikeyan,2000 which I most often quotes), 17,000 > species (Khoshoo 1995, Singh et al.2001), 17,500 species (Sharma et > al.1997), 18,000 species (Sanjappa et al.2004), 20,247 species (Chowdhery > and Murti,2000), and more recently 20,074 (Karthikeyan,2009) etc. > > *Shouldn’t we know in this forum that which number we are chasing for wild > flora of India?* > > Since more and more hard core angiosperm taxonomists are also joining this > group I am expecting a figure (with reference) which will be recent and > reliable. > > DSRawat Pantnagar > > -- > 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. > 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
