I just notcied one strange thing from WFO. THERE IS NO PARTICIPATING MEMBER FROM INDIA. AMAZZINGGGGG..... AND NO INDIAN BOTANIC GARDENS OR BSI. I am so fed up of this European culture. They all will bring their own friends into the loop and create something repetitive. OK, just for the sake of checking I thought of looking into this and randomly first genus to check came into my mind was Gastrochilus. So I searched for it and it is missing. So I searched for Geodorum. I appears. Now WFO says 12 species ; KEW CHECKLIST says 7 species; PLANT LIST says 12 species. I pick up the top name that is, Geodorum appendiculatum. I find much more information still on the Plant List and Kew Checklist than on WFO. WFO doesnt even give full author citations. ITS A SHAME. No one in the world will cite a species name like this, "Geodorum appendiculatum Griff. Calcutta J. Nat. Hist." On the bibliography it gives a link which doesnt work. I understand, I am too fussy, and may be by 2020 they will bring it to higher standards. But right now, in the current state, I dont recommend anyone to use WFO. I see one plus point that there is an option for people to join and so I highly recommends experts like Gurcharan sir and Ritesh to join this. I am sure I am skipping names of many other experts. It would give us an upper hand to correct the taxonomy of things if and when needed. Thanks and regards Pankaj
On Sunday, 5 May 2019 00:04:33 UTC+8, JM Garg wrote: > > *The Plant List* (TPL) was a working list of all known plant species > produced by the botanical community in response to Target 1 of the > 2002-2010 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC). TPL has been > static since 2013, but was used as the starting point for the Taxonomic > Backbone of the * World Flora Online (WFO)*, and updated information can > be found at *www.worldfloraonline.org* <http://www.worldfloraonline.org/>. > > WFO is being developed by a consortium of leading botanical institutions > worldwide in response to the 2011-2020 GSPC’s updated Target 1: to achieve > an online Flora of all known plants by 2020. WFO welcomes feedback from > users for improvements to its Taxonomic Backbone which is curated by a > growing community of WFO Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs). > -- > 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- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or > Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 > are directly displayed). > > 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 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.
