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/
