I look forward to Shrikant's latest book. I too have been fortunate to accompany him in some explorations and I admire his dedication and persistence in searching out and identifying plants. He is always willing to travel long distances for a possible sighting of a flowering plant. His enthusiasm is very inspiring.
His books are useful for the layman and for botanists alike. regards Radha On Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:54:46 PM UTC+5:30, Dinesh Valke wrote: > > Dear friends, > > Good news to enthusiasts of Sahyadri flora. Shrikant (Ingalhalikar) ji's > third and last field guide in the series, aptly named as 'Final Flowers of > Sahyadri' will be released on 21 March 2014 - a day auspicious to people of > our kind - the 'World Forest Day'. > > Shrikant ji has been working endlessly, more so for the last two years to > get the final lot of flowers into this new book. I and Prashant have been > fortunate to join him during his explorations, and have benefited from > every trip. But I must say every trip did not benefit him necessarily. > Several times he would need to go in successive weeks or so to find the > plants blooming! In some cases, it would be successive years! > > Some details of the new book that I know from him: "It will contain 800 > new species of flowering plants of north Western Ghats. With this third and > last field guide in the series, documentation of 2200 species from this hot > spot habitat gets completed. Grasses and sedges are not in scope of this > set of 3 field guides. Besides the 800 species (530 wild and 270 > cultivated), the new guide also enlists and gives identification help for > about 100 species of Palms and Conifers of this region." > > He is launching a website too ... http://www.flowersofsahyadri.in/ on 1st > March 2014, which would have all the information and updates related to > books authored by him. The new book and any of his earlier books may be > ordered by logging on to the website. > > Identick, a new web application for identification of the 2200 species of > flowering plants of Sahyadri is also being launched along with the website. > I am sure it will serve like a ready reckoner to identify the plants found > in Sahyadri. > > I am attaching a small snapshot of the book cover that he shared with me. > The A5 sized book has 288 pages. > > > Regards. > Dinesh > -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
