Dear all, Last night I was telling my friend about the activities in this group, which provokes knowledge by discussions and reviews. As Gurucharan singhji mentioned, the group is gaining momentum to become a Knowledge Forum on Plant taxonomy. Interactions from experts here, kindles me to learn and search more. I love to be part of efloraofindia.
Cheers! On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Members > What had initially started as a site to share photographs and get identity > of unknown plants, I find in recent months, it is taking shape as Forum > where new inputs from members are leading to the re-interpretation of > identity of many plants. Many of us very happy to identify their specimens > from local floras, and most of the times once we identify the specimen from > local flora, we don't find need (and often there is no need, because that is > the purpose of local floras: fewer names to sort from) to cross check the > identifications. Interactions on this group have in recent months led to the > correction of many local flora identifications and more importantly > discovery of several new records in regional floras. There are often very > involved discussions, not met in even usual research interactions at various > research institutes. Some recent such discussions have been on Solanum > indicum complex which threw in several new species of our areas, Ocimum > longifolia complex, Alternathera species in India, Acmella species in India > and more recently discussion on specimens of Physalis minima complex > uploaded by me and Dinesh ji. Truly most of these discussions are initiated > by Satishji and Dinesh ji, provided professional touch by Shrikant ji and > Vijayasankar ji and interesting inputs by Garg ji and Tabish ji. The group > has more recently become more resourceful with the introduction of Tanay > (ji), Muthu ji, Satish Chile, Balkar ji, Satish Pardesi ji and several > other members contributing actively. > With discussions continuing like this, our website may soon become a > Forum/Centre for active Taxonomic Research, I keep on interacting in several > other groups, but find none (even some International ones) reaching a > fraction of interaction that we find on this group. > Congratulations to all members. Three cheers for efloraofindia Group, > and three cheers for our pioneers Tabish ji and Garg ji. > > -- > 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- > 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. > -- Muthu Karthick, N Junior Research Fellow Care Earth Trust Chennai - 61 www.careearthtrust.org -- 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.
