Dear Satish ji, When I get hold of plants physically or from photo I never make any vague guesses anytime my Id may me wrong sometimes but what i do is study the morphology minutely and try to get hold of as many as characters as possible and try to match with a family with similar set of character one i get this my search get narrower and then move into genus and species subsequently . This group is very useful though I send very less for ID but India has a great biodiversity and at least it's impossible for me to remember all the names of the plants in a single glance ,,,,,, this initiative by Garg ji is resourceful in any sense. Regards Tanay
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks Tanay for the very useful link. > Bye the way > I wanted to elicit one discussion on the subject. > *What is the series of steps say a botanist takes while going for the ID.* > Everyone is free to answer his own way. > Personally if I am conversant to the flower and if I remember to have seen > it somewhere I try to recollect the name. If not > Then I try to put it vaguely in some family......(sometimes this is also > wrong) > If I apply some tentative genus name by recollecting.... > I put the genus word in search window of Google and Flowersofindia site. > There are some books with each of us which are often useful. > For differentiation between the species I have to look for the flora. I > have print copy of BSI Maharashtra flora; some other floras and ref. books > are online. > Often the shortcut easily taken is to put on Efloraofindia group.I get the > ID 99% of times. > This is a simple non botanist person's approach who is supposed to be > amateur botanist. > I will be interested in looking at the opinions which may be useful to > similar minded members. > Regards > Dr Phadke > > > On 20 March 2010 21:24, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear All Menbers, >> In the link below you will find all pdf version of Floras of India as well >> as regional . Please It can come handy for you ...I use them regularly >> http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_search/search010biolfloraindiaa.asp >> Regards >> Tanay >> >> -- >> Tanay Bose >> +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) >> 9830439691(Mobile) >> 9674221362 (Mobile) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) 9674221362 (Mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
