Excellent move sir. Hope it will take up Araliaceae very soon. regards Mithilesh
On Oct 18, 1:10 am, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear members > Balkar ji started a focus on members of members of family Convolvulaceae. > This was followed up by a weekend focus on Cucurbits, which gave us a good > insight into the diversity within the group. After discussion within the > moderator group it has been decided to observe a monthly week, in the first > week of every month starting with Monday (on whatever date it comes) and > ending with Sunday, when we will discuss a particular group, even the > species already in the database and and members will upload their > photographs of identified as well as unidentified plants of that group. > Considering the diversity and size of various taxa, the focus group can be a > Family, a group of families, a genus, or a subgroup within the family having > at least 100 species reported from India, but not more than 500, so that the > group can be covered adequately. > It has been decided to have the November week (starting with First > November, which incidentally falls on Monday) focus on Apocynaceae > (including Asclepiadaceae). Dr. Balkar Singh ji will be the coordinator for > this episode. December week will focus Grasses (the group inspite of being > very large, is given episode in light of the fact that very few members are > generally well versed with grasses) to be coordinated by Dr. Ritesh Kumar > Chouodhary ji, January, 2011 week will focus Vegetables and Fruits, to be > coordinated by Dinesh Valke ji. > Members are requested give their suggestions regarding future episodes, > and volunteer to coordinate the group of their choice. > > I request maximum participation by members in these episodes, and can > collect and save photographs of relevant groups for discussion during the > week. > > -- > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
