Many many thanks Gurcharan ji. Regards. Dinesh
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Forwarded this message for the benefit of new members to note. > > > -- > 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/ > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:46 AM > Subject: Photographs for ID-Please follow the format-Place in subject line > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > > > Dear members > It has been seen that several members, especially the new ones, do not > provide any information accompanying the photographs for ID. It as such > becomes very difficult for identify the plants, because in a country like > India with diverse climatic conditions, the distribution of plants is often > specific in different places. We may have to consider just 500-1000 plants > when we know the place but with no details, we may have to sort from no less > than 20,000 plants of Indian Flora. The things can become even more > difficult (as Satish Phadke ji has pointed out) when friends upload plants > from other parts of the world (we have seen many plants from California, > Muscat, Oman, Germany,etc. in the recent months) and we have to consider all > plus 2,60,000 plants. > Some members have often complained that they find format complicated, > because they are non-botanists. I hope every member, botanist or > non-botanist can provide this simple but useful information without any > problem. > > 1. Place of photography (town, city, state) > 2. Approximate altitude (we should always have information about the place > from net, mile posts, display boards, etc.), as it helps a lot in > understanding plant > 3. Habit: Herb (plant soft, broken easily), Shrub (plant woody, no trunk), > Tree (woody, with distinct trunk), climber, etc. > 4. Habitat: Growing wild or cultivated, growing on land, marshes, water, > roadsides, wastelands, etc. > 5. Height of plant > 6. Size of leaves, especially basal and middle leaves > 7. Size of flower (length, diameter). > > Although other details are also important (type of leaves and their > phyllotaxy, presence or absence of bracts, length of pedicel (flower stalk), > calyx characters, petal length, number of stamens and carpels, type and size > of fruit), but these can be made out by the experts if the photographs are > properly taken: > > 1. Photograph of twig from side so that leaves and flowers are clearly > visible. > 2. close up of the flower from side to that its insertion on the axis is > clearly visible (expert would know about the bract, pedicel, calyx, > calyx-corolla relation, etc. from this) > 3. close up of flower from top so that petals, stamens and carpels are > clearly visible (expert may be able to make out about stamens and carpels) > > PLEASE INCLUDE THE NAME OF PLACE IN SUBJECT LINE FOR BOTH IDENTIFIED PLANTS > AND FOR PLANTS FOR ID > > Digital photography has an inherent problem that when we have photographs > with different magnications we may tend to forget the exact size of plant > parts. A scale may not always be handy in the field and often cumbersome to > use, I have found a new convenient way to keep record of size. I photograph > some of these keeping on my fingers, palm, nail. This always helps me to to > judge size later on. We may not upload these photographs but these can > always be used for taking notes of sizes of plant parts. Here are a few > sample photographs. > > > -- > 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/ . > > > > > >
