Wonderful efforts and Congrats, Dipankar ji. May I request you to pl. post some representative images, so that these can be incorporated in efloraofindia.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 14:03, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > > *Posted on Facebook, by one of our members as below*: > > Dear All, > I am very glad to share that, my two long awaited new species are > published in a single day. > > 1st species: Begonia oyuniae (named after the mother of Momang Taram > <https://www.facebook.com/mangmotaram.mangmotaram1?__tn__=%2CdK-RH-R-R&eid=ARBN5OPve52XcL4NzOaT3iEZZ1tOlbD8SJp8ZHIyis15COtIbqvpQ_pVIGENl-EDvKeRZlzhGd74H3rB&fref=mentions>, > Oyun aunt is a very nice lady, with a keen interest in plants. She has > devoted her life to raising her brilliant children and growing plants in > her backyard.) > ... > > Background story: While exploring the Siang Valley, Miss Taram, found a > beautiful Begonia growing elegantly in a fast-flowing streamside in 2017. > Being super curious she took several pictures of it and sent me in the > evening. We were very sure that we never saw it to date, so we sent the > photographs to Mark Hughes, from Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden, as he > has produced a revision on it and has a great idea on Begonias of Northeast > India. And after confirmation, we described it after several visits and > collections later and sent for publication. In the meantime, another team > from Calicut University, Kerala also found the species from Namdapha, and > luckily Hughes was the reviewer of their manuscript. So finally we combined > both the articles making it a beautiful article describing a remarkable > species > > You can observe Miss Oyun's Begonia in streams of Siang valley and > Namdapha National Park (Possibly the whole region). > > Link to the full article: > https://www.researchgate.net/…/342352978_Begonia_oyuniae_Be… > <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342352978_Begonia_oyuniae_Begonia_sect_Monophyllon_Begoniaceae_a_remarkable_new_species_from_Northeast_India?fbclid=IwAR3IqLNlG035woVfHp1KIzI7PmffdPQcY8xR53keT-1kCE7TWC7456u97j0> > > I am very grateful to Miss Momang Taram, Ojar Taku, and Dr. Mark Hughes > for their help and support, without which I could have never described it. > > With love always > Dipoo Dipankar Borah > <https://www.facebook.com/dipu.borah2?__tn__=%2CdK-RH-R-R&eid=ARBM22nJTpy7z-z5FQk8p-mqaupGJy9S4mex-iDGhzmSDsIU3_ogusKtYZLis-QZXm6lsN58jKrlRslp&fref=mentions> > > -- > -- 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 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than 2,50,000 images are directly displayed on 31.1.20). 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFB4v_pWjd_gMdF2OusMtMMwbe0WKAi3_BMLbrA%3D05AbVg%40mail.gmail.com.
