Best wishes Mr. Mayur...... Pankaj On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:42 AM, mayur nandikar <mnandi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you sir for initiating the topic. > I cordially invite all of you for "Commelinales & Zingiberales Week" in > fact I request you to contribute the things regarding these orders. > > And I hope any thread/ information/ Identification queries related to these > orders will help to finalize data for our new web address. > > Please follow the subject line: "Commelinales & Zingiberales Week" and try > to provide minute details of species as much possible. Specially in case of > Commelinaceae and allied families since 2008, lot of species are already > posted by many of our members, therefore I just suppose to ask u all, shall > we repost it again with their proper ID and details? > > Looking forward for another exciting episode next week. > > > > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear Friends >> The focus this month would be on Commelinales & Zingiberales between >> February 7 to 13, 2011. Dr. Mayur Nandikar, our expert on family >> Commelinaceae has offered this episode, which was originally proposed to >> include family Commelinaceae, but the scope was increased to include other >> families in light of the small size of the family in India. For the >> convenience of members the following families/genera would be covered in >> this episode: >> Commelinales >> Commelinaceae: Commelina, Cyanotis, Floscopa, Murdania, Pollia, Tinantia, >> Tradescantia (including Rhoeo, Setcreasea, Zebrina etc.) >> Pontederiaceae: Eichhornia, Monochoria, Pontederia >> Zingiberales >> Cannaceae: Canna >> Costaceae: Costus >> Heliconiaceae: Heliconia, >> Marantaceae: Calathea, Maranta >> Musaceae: Ensete, Musa >> Strelitziaceae: Strelitzia >> Zingiberaceae: Alpinia, Cautleya, Curcuma, Elletaria, Etlingera, >> Hedychium, Hitchenia, Kaempferia, Roscoea, Zingiber >> Any genus represented in India but missed by me can be added by the >> experts >> FOR NON-BOTANISTS IF YOU ARE SENDING IDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHS YOU WILL KNOW >> WHERE IT BELONGS (WIKIPEDIA IS THE EASIEST SOURCE. >> FOR PLANTS MEANT FOR ID FOR THIS EPISODE: >> ALL MONOCOTS WITH SOME SORT OF COVERING (SPATHE) ON THE >> INFLORESCENCE EXCLUDING GRASSES, SEDGES AND PALMS FOR THIS EPISODE >> And Yes if any plant gets covered in error, it is a bonus for the episode. >> The experts would be there to sort it out. >> ALL Posts meant for this episode should have the first part of Subject >> Line: "Commelinales & Zingiberales Week" followed by the unique part so >> that the threads don't get mixed up. >> I would request Mayur ji to provide further guidelines. >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> > > > > -- > Mayur Nandikar > Research Student, > Department of Botany, > Shivaji University, Kolhapur (MS) > India- 416 004 > > http://commelinaceae.blogspot.com > http://murdannia.blogspot.com > http://www.flickr.com/photos/commelinaceae > >
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