Thank you very much Sir for nicely elaborating various types of heads. The photos are excellent.
Regards, surajit On Wednesday, 24 April 2013 10:02:08 UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > Dear friends > After discussions in the moderator group it has been decided to convert > family weeks into family fortnight, starting from 1st of every month, > instead of Monday. This should give more time to members who can't > participate so actively in weekly formats. > As announced earlier our next three episodes will cover family > Asteraceae, obviously one of the very diverse and widely distributed family > in all climates. Forgetting about the complicated classification of the > family, it has been decided to make the division as simple as possible. The > first episode in the month of May will cover members with radiate heads: > those having both ray florets and disc florets. For those not botanically > oriented, the episode will include members in which petal like structures > are found on periphery and disc in the center, like we have in sun flower. > The second episode in June would cover members with only disc florets (no > petal like structures on periphery) like we have in Ageratum and third in > July will cover members with only ray florets (no disc in center) like we > have in Sonchus. > There is bound to be some overlapping, as some genera have more than > one type of heads, but we will go by majority, and be also prepared for > overlapping in different episodes. We will list the genera before the start > of every episode. > > I AM HAPPY TO INFORM THAT DR NIDHAN SINGH HAS AGREED TO COORDINATE THE > JULY EPISODE. MORE VOLUNTEERS PLEASE!!! > > Members are requested to participate in these episodes, which are mainly > aimed at identification of plants, as also having a relook at our database. > I wish every member would have photographs of this family, and should > participate. > PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO NUMBER YOUR UPLOADS SERIALLY DURING THESE EPISODES > TO HELP US IN TABULATION > > Please give subject line in May episode as "Asteraceae Week Part I-Radiate > heads:...............(plant name/unique code) from............... (place) > .....(add for ID for unknown photographs)-........(your serial number)" > > > -- > 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
