That's great, Satish ji. Can we now have a check list in excel made out of this, with species arranged alphabetically ?
On 22 September 2012 11:46, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > Many thanks for all the participants for the overwhelming response to the > recently concluded : *VOF MONTH*. > Please pardon me for not responding to many threads last few days as I was > busy in compiling the statistics of the species discussed. > 1)I have prepared an excel sheet with family-wise distribution of the > plants studied. There might be some duplication of few species due to > synonyms and at the same time I have tried to exclude the planted garden > species posted as far as possible which are not endemic. > 2) I have more than 1200 mails carrying label VOF in my inbox(*1212* to > be precise at this moment) > 3)Total number of species discussed comes to *470 approx*.(Because there > might be some duplication or non-inclusion due to personal errors)including > fern and Marchantia. One species of moss posted has not been counted by me. > 4)There are* 88 families* representing the plants posted including fern > and Marchantia. The nomenclature of some families has changed so again > there might be some overlap and may be interpreted differently by some. esp > family Caprifoliaceae which is now subdivided into several small families. > 5)The largest family by number of species discussed is *Asteraceae with 54 > * species discussed during the episode. > 6)Next largest is Family: Rosaceae with 40 sp. discussed which is followed > by Polygonaceae 23. Lamiaceae 21. Orchidaceae 20. Scrophulariaceae 18. > Fabaceae 17. Ranunculaceae 16. Caryophyllaceae 12 Saxifragaceae and > Balsaminaceae with 9 sp.each. > 7)Some surprises(to me) Betulaceae which includes the famous Betula utilis > tree also has occurrence in the valley with 5 more species recorded in our > database. > 8)Some major families with significant occurrence elsewhere were > promonently absent here. Some of them are :Bignoniaceae; > Capparidaceae,Combretaceae, Sapotaceae; Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae. > Please feel free to point any errors or important mentioning in the > statistics which might have escaped my attention. > Dr Satish Phadke > > -- > > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 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 Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1950 members & 1,27,800 messages on 31/8/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
