Very good and interesting post. Dr Satish Phadke
On 25 November 2013 09:31, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
