Rightly Said, Pankaj ji. It appears, they have just started the work and it may take some time to move away from static data of 2013 of The Plant List. As far as BSI is concerned, I am not aware if they have joined any of the global initiatives, which we have discussed so far. However, their data is being utilized by Catalogue of Life and Kew. -- With regards, J. M. Garg
On Mon 6 May, 2019, 10:03 AM Dr Pankaj Kumar, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
