Thank you all for sharing your personal experiences with Isoetes. Pankaj, i remembered your recent anecdote about Rumphius (!!!). Don't worry, if you have missed, someone will publish all these plants soon!!! and will honour you perhaps! (lol). Dear Gurcharan ji & Tanay, Pachmarhi is one of the places i always wanted to survey. Still awaiting for the opportunities! Regards
---------------------------------------------------- Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Research Associate National Center for Natural Products Research Thad Cochran Research Center University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677 Phone: +1 662 915 1018 On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:12 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > i have also seen Isoetes in Panchmari and have also collected it > a few population grows around the Panchamri Lake which is a man made > water body. > Tanay > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Very interestingly, I collected my only Isoetes in Ranchi and had it >> alive for few days in my aquarium thinking it to be some Vallisneria. >> But it died and after that I realised it was not a grass at all. I >> hated the plant at that time.....why? dont know why, but all my fishes >> in the aquarium died in one night after I had planted this in the >> aquarium!! >> >> Then I think I missed my second Isoetes during my field work in >> Palamau district, this time an epiphytic one. God!! even Dr. Aparna >> says, I have missed many new species, more than anyone else has even >> been able to describe. This was with reference to the fact that I have >> missed describing two new genera and two more new species of orchids!! >> >> It could really have been a new species. >> Panchamarhi has been very famous for many plants which also includes, >> Psilotum nudum!! I imagine this Satpura hypothesis has something very >> unique about this area. >> >> Thanks a lot for sharing. >> >> Pankaj >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Vijayasankar ji >> > Thanks for sharing. We first saw this genus in Pachmarhi, but >> unfortunately >> > there no digital cameras then, 30 years back. >> > -- >> > 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: 9810359089 >> > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:04 PM, mani nair <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Nice photo. looks similar to grass. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:14 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> A great contrast Vijaya Ji >> >>> Tanay >> >>> >> >>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Vijayasankar < >> [email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Isoetus species (may be I. coromandelina). >> >>>> For non-botanists friends: this plant may look like a grass or sedge >> but >> >>>> it belongs to a primitive group of plants 'pteridophyte'. It >> propagates >> >>>> through 'spores' and it doesn't know what flowers & fruits are! It >> prefers >> >>>> to grow in marshy habitats. >> >>>> >> >>>> Regards >> >>>> >> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------- >> >>>> Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. >> >>>> Post Doctoral Research Associate >> >>>> National Center for Natural Products Research >> >>>> Thad Cochran Research Center >> >>>> University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677 >> >>>> Phone: +1 662 915 1018 >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Tanay Bose >> >>> Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. >> >>> Department of Botany. >> >>> University of British Columbia . >> >>> 3529-6270 University Blvd. >> >>> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) >> >>> Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) >> >>> 604-822-2019 (Lab) >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> *********************************************** >> "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" >> >> >> Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) >> Research Associate >> Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project >> Department of Habitat Ecology >> Wildlife Institute of India >> Post Box # 18 >> Dehradun - 248001, India >> > > > > -- > *Tanay Bose* > Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. > Department of Botany. > University of British Columbia . > 3529-6270 University Blvd. > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) > 604-822-2019 (Lab) > [email protected] > >
