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 <jmga...@gmail.com> 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 <sahanipan...@gmail.com> 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 <singh...@gmail.com> >> 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/ >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> >> > 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 <drsmpha...@gmail.com> >> >> 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 <sahanipan...@gmail.com> >> >> > 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 <drsmpha...@gmail.com> 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 <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/ <http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/>> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> *********************************************** >> >> "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 (jmga...@gmail.com) > 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.
