Thanks, Rawat ji. Well said. I think they have around 17,000 species as accepted & balance are provisionally accepted (where they could not place them either as syn. or as accepted species) etc.
On 4 September 2016 at 22:46, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes Garg Ji, it is an important resource on Angiosperm flora of India. > What is most striking to me is the number of species in India in this > database (21764 !) as compared to the official figure of India by Botanical > Survey of India (18,159 in Plant Discoveries 2015). A difference of more > than 3500 species! > This team must have done great compilation and deserve appreciation. > > DSRawat Pantnagar > > > On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 3:34:04 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: >> >> Dear members, >> Today I had discussions with one of the members of the team (Sh. Arpit >> Deomurari) who created IBIS Flora <http://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/>. >> >> I find it quite a useful resource & adding its links also in the >> references. >> What is quite important is that it tried to give 21,764 species as >> accepted names of Indian floral species & I think it's the only site we can >> get such a checklist in India. Today I discussed with him the methodology >> used by them in arriving at accepted names. He stated with Hooker's Flora >> of India as a base & started revising the names as per publications till >> 2014 along with using international databases. It seems to be great first >> time work by a team of 5 members over a period of around two years. It also >> gives distribution of 14,899 species. We can use it as one of the good >> resources in our discussions in efloraofindia. It also has search facility >> just like efloraofindia. In the left side bar >> <http://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/flora/angiosperm/acorales/acoraceae/acorus> >> one can see all the species in a particular genus or all the genera in a >> particular family etc.. >> Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a >> Creative Commons Attribution, No Derivative Works CC BY-ND Licence. >> >> I reproducing more details from it as below: >> IBIS – Flora, a first of its kind portal, caters to users with an >> extensive database carrying information of a total of 21,764 species, 515 >> subspecies, 2,514 varieties, 4 sub varieties and 58 forma belonging to >> 3,667 genera, 271 families and 50 orders of APG III. Around 95,161 synonyms >> have been compiled of which 40,000 come from numerous Indian literatures >> while the others are from international open access sources. IBIS-Flora >> contains distribution maps for 14,899 species and has more than 65,000 >> Bibliography from regional Flora. The Portal also offers details such as >> place of publication of angiosperms, abbreviated names of authors, names >> as per the international standards and a centralized repository of >> bibliography of more than 1, 65, 000 citations, covering major publications >> from India and world across. Further IBIS-Flora has records of photographs, >> book excerpts, databases like IUCN, NCBI, Biodiversity heritage library and >> results from search engines like ReFindit. The prime aim of collating this >> information is to provide baseline data for the Flora of India and to >> enhance the understanding of amateurs and enthusiasts on biodiversity and >> its conservation related issues. >> >> I also request Arpit ji (or any of the team members) to pl. give us more >> details in the matter so that our members can use it in a better way. >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. 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