It was great to see so many grass species last several days. As Pankaj ji has said grasses are not favourite of many (as most of them don't possess showy beautiful flowers.) I was disappointed initially because I couldn't contribute any. Looking at so many species I realized that many grasses are observed around you but a keen eye is necessary to extract the beauty out of them. I am overwhelmed to see the response of this new theme started on Efloraindia and am sure that it continues further in the same manner in coming months due to hard work done by many members especially the ones listed above. Dr Phadke
On 13 December 2010 01:47, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> 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/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > >
