I thought this was going to stay for one month!!! We have many grasses left and I have not been able to provide information to many plants as I had been too busy with some official assignments and some applications which is yet to be filled before deadline.
I would like to give special thanks to Dr. Ritesh for conducting the Grass Week/Month and taking time out of his busy lab/office schedule to contribute. Special thanks to all contributors mentioned by Dr. Gurcharan. But more than special thanks to Dr. Gurcharan himself and of course N.S.Dungriyal Sir (my students in Tiger team are becoming your fans at Satpura) and for sure, Dr. Vijayshankar for showing some very rare plant specimens and Dinesh sir. I learnt about a lot of grasses this week. I imagine if I had not been running away from grasses and asteraceae since the beginning of my interest in taxonomy, I would have contributed to Grass taxonomy of India.....but for me, Orchids are always a better option :)). Thank you all. Regards Pankaj On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends > Perhaps our apprehensions about lack of interestin grasses were unfounded. > The Grass week was a great success, providing a glimpse of great diversity > within the group. Large number of members participated, with major > contribution from Nayan ji, ably supported by Dinesh ji (as usual), Ritesh > ji, Vijayasankar ji, Raghu ji, Mayur ji, Prashant ji, Balkar ji, Rashida ji > and several other members, regularly encouraged by Tanay who also provided > relevant feedback. > Pankaj ji continued the great work of providing types, protologues and > important comments. > Congratulations and thanks to all for making the episode a great one. > Kudos to Dr. Ritesh Choudhary for undertaking and coordinating this > important episode on grasses. Fortunately very few grasses remained > unidentified during the week. > I WOULD REQUEST OTHER MEMBERS TO VOLUNTEER FOR COORDINATING FUTURE > EPISODES. > > -- > 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/ > > -- *********************************************** "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
