---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dr E S Santhosh Kumar <essanthoshjntb...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 13:00 Subject: Re: [itpmods:15933] Fwd: What is the secret behind so many endemic species in Kerala ? To: itpmods <itpm...@googlegroups.com>
Dear friends, The question " What is the secret behind so many endemic species in Kerala? " raised by Gargji has several answers. The first reason has been very well explained by SanthanJi. Secondly, the flora of Kerala has been well explored and documented and every part of the state has been thoroughly explored and the important findings were published in time. There are certain exceptions that a few new gen botanists described the already known species in many foreign journals as new species again. Sadly in several cases the reviewers never known about it. In the recent climatic change scenario, several ephemerals become annuals or biennials or even perennials through several perennating mechanism. Such species often mistakenly described new during recent times from Kerala. Genera such as Impatiens, Sonerila, Strobilanthes etc are having several species grow together in a biome often have a chance of exchange genes by interbreeding between them. The F1 generation often having characters of both parents and also possessing certain unique characters of themselves. It is called Nothospecies. Such characters never having a chance of continue over generations. Some of the new gen botanists described such taxa as novelties to science. There are several hidden agenda behind it. Certain exotic species naturalized in Kerala years ago show several ecological traits also described novelties recently. Unnecessary addition of fictitious novelties increased the number of endemics in Kerala. I have prepared a list of such 'paper species', but wont like to publish in such a public forum. Let some experts in respective fields should tackle the issue. Thanks On Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 12:25 J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 at 11:25 > Subject: What is the secret behind so many endemic species in Kerala ? > To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > > > Dear members, > While browsing through Flora of Peninsular India, I generally found that > Kerala is having so many endmics (including narrow endemics with > distribution shown in only one place or district) compared to > other states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka etc. > What can be the reason behind it ? > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFDuUnUNfXhf%3Dd7xtrbMTwVrGAKg-wNjUCKfnfMkQeZ%2BDQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFDuUnUNfXhf%3Dd7xtrbMTwVrGAKg-wNjUCKfnfMkQeZ%2BDQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ITPmods" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BBiB1LEQ6CEUHZOShWZdqe8vrtArwpkzuQRAv95j27s5PJwqA%40mail.gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BBiB1LEQ6CEUHZOShWZdqe8vrtArwpkzuQRAv95j27s5PJwqA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- With regards, J.M.Garg -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFD-KB%3DHac9jf61Z0EMDbVWJreTfstzMwJ5st%3DxnsWuEAg%40mail.gmail.com.
