Photographic and textual keys are complementary

[J.M. Garg]

Dear members,

When ever I get stuck with photographic keys in efi site, textual keys comes to my rescue. similarly when I am stuck with textual keys, photographic keys comes to my rescue.

Deciphering textual keys becomes easier if we also we have photographic keys and vice-versa.

Some members may be more comfortable with photographic keys and others with textual ones and vice-versa.

Thus, photographic and textual keys are complementary.

We, at efi site, are trying to have both either directly or through links.
It is always good to have both.

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With regards,
J.M.Garg

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[J.M. Garg]

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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 09:50
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Well said, Mr. Garg.

Regards,

Ashwini

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Same with me also Mr. Garg but I am not yet ready for perfect  match through keys. Still learning!

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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Yes very true

But what I have also learnt from the beginning, if you working on plants of a particular area, try to locate locate a local, make preliminary identification using its keys and text, then locate a more comprehensive recent flora (say Flora of India) to confirm or clear doubts, compare also with comprehensive Floras of adjoining regions (say eFlora of Pakistan eFlora of China).

     About which database to follow, I am not very sure, because most of the time major databases have different taxonomic and nomenclatural treatment. We have to decide on one and follow it consistently.

 

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On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 9:51 AM Saroj Kasaju <kasaj...@gmail.com> wrote:

Same with me also Mr. Garg but I am not yet ready for perfect  match through keys. Still learning!

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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[Paradesi Anjaneyulu]

What you said is exactly Garg Ji, 

I am also thinking both keys have equal importance and my self learning the same way, many times without photograph I can't move with the text and when I have seen the image only will fix the meaning of the terms in keys....

Thank you,

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