Interestingly, although Asteraceae (cortesy APG, Asterids is now a very large group of sympetalous families) is the largest family of angiosperms with more than 24000 species, their identification features are more reliable than many other families. Hope we have a week on Asteraceae soon.
-- 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 Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > No issues sir. > I am not sure if it is favourite or not. But for sure I had always > been running away from maths, asterids and grasses!! > :)) > Pankaj > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In fact that is my perception > > ....grasses are not favourite of many (as most of them don't possess > showy > > beautiful flowers.) > > Sorry The sentence has created some misunderstanding(?) > > > > On 13 December 2010 21:11, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hahahaha, > >> I didnt mean it that way Satish sir. I didnt say that grasses are not > >> favourite of many. What I meant to say was I worked on Orchids so I > >> will always have higher affinity towards Orchids. > >> Grasses are of course as good as any other group of plants, but its > >> really a hard nut for me to crack!! > >> Regards > >> Pankaj > >> > >> > >> On Dec 13, 8:33 pm, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > 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 <[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/< > http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "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 >
