Dear all friends who posted grasses ... many many thanks to you all. To me and all those who run away from OR just walk over grasses --- this set of posts is thoroughly helpful. Almost every photo posted is crisp and clean !!! The database has gained lot of treasure !!!
Regards. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Mayur Nandikar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello to all > > Congratulations Ritesh Ji for the success of Grasss Week, I also > congratulate all the involved personalities in this forum for grand success > of this chapter. > > Thank you > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks everybody for making a great week on grasses. >> It's bringing out some new species as well as increasing chances to >> compare similar looking species. >> >> On 13 December 2010 21:56, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes to me people say that Orchids are toughest, to a grass man people >>> say grasses are toughest... :)).... on the other hand, I say orchids >>> are easiest and a grass guy will say grasses are easiest!! >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > 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/<http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >>> > >>> > >>> > 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/> >>> <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 >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *********************************************** >>> "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 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each >> image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1465 members & >> 56,400 messages on 9/12/10 & with a database of around 4350 species on >> 15/11/10) >> >> > > > -- > Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, > Research Student, > Department of Botany, > Shivaji University, > Kolhapur. >
