Thanks, Chadwell ji, for doing so. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "C CHADWELL" <[email protected]> Date: 11 Jan 2017 6:25 p.m. Subject: Why is Chris Chadwell confirming and sometimes questioning identifcations of ALL postings for a species? To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> Cc:
I am gradually going through each species covered in ALL the genera represented in the Himalaya currently posted within eFI, that I have knowledge of. In some cases, there are only one or two entries, so this is quick to do. For others there are a lot of entries - up to double figures. After the first few being correctly identified, there is a temptation to assume they all are and not bother with the rest but OFTEN it turns out that one or two are not correctly identified. This has been true for Anemone rivularis - a species widespread in the Himalaya, which I first came across at Manali in H.P. Also seen it in the Eastern Himalaya in Bhutan. It is not recorded for Kashmir but is known in Ladakh. The entry photographed by Suresh in Paddar Valley, does not fit with A.rivularis - seems likely to be a form of A.rupicola, which is known from Kashmir. Flowers of the Himalaya gives a distribution of Kashmir to SW China but although Ladakh is part of the Indian State of Jammu & Kashmir, it would have been better to have put Ladakh to SW China. *This illustrates the principle that one should ALWAYS check. And IF a plant has definitely been misidentified* *or is doubtful in the eFI data-base (or any other data-base, on-line or printed) then attention needs to be drawn* *to these errors and where necessary, corrected. * *ACCURACY and RELIABILITY are CRITICAL for any data-base.* Best Wishes, Chris Chadwell 81 Parlaunt Road SLOUGH SL3 8BE UK www.shpa.org.uk -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
