Thanks, Dinesh ji, for the news. He has been rendering yeoman's service to the flora of India (in particular Western Ghats). Lot many people in this group (as well as outside) has been greatly benefited by his books & his expertise. His name will remain etched for ever.
On 18 January 2014 21:54, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > Good news to enthusiasts of Sahyadri flora. Shrikant (Ingalhalikar) ji's > third and last field guide in the series, aptly named as 'Final Flowers of > Sahyadri' will be released on 21 March 2014 - a day auspicious to people of > our kind - the 'World Forest Day'. > > Shrikant ji has been working endlessly, more so for the last two years to > get the final lot of flowers into this new book. I and Prashant have been > fortunate to join him during his explorations, and have benefited from > every trip. But I must say every trip did not benefit him necessarily. > Several times he would need to go in successive weeks or so to find the > plants blooming! In some cases, it would be successive years! > > Some details of the new book that I know from him: "It will contain 800 > new species of flowering plants of north Western Ghats. With this third and > last field guide in the series, documentation of 2200 species from this hot > spot habitat gets completed. Grasses and sedges are not in scope of this > set of 3 field guides. Besides the 800 species (530 wild and 270 > cultivated), the new guide also enlists and gives identification help for > about 100 species of Palms and Conifers of this region." > > He is launching a website too ... http://www.flowersofsahyadri.in/ on 1st > March 2014, which would have all the information and updates related to > books authored by him. The new book and any of his earlier books may be > ordered by logging on to the website. > > Identick, a new web application for identification of the 2200 species of > flowering plants of Sahyadri is also being launched along with the website. > I am sure it will serve like a ready reckoner to identify the plants found > in Sahyadri. > > I am attaching a small snapshot of the book cover that he shared with me. > The A5 sized book has 288 pages. > > > Regards. > Dinesh > > -- > 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. > -- 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 2200 members & 1,78,400 messages on 31/12/13) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
