Eflora of India (eFI) has reached 2,00,000 messages and 10,000 species!
Vijayasankar
Dear all,
Congratulations!
I am much excited to let you know that our group has achieved yet another
milestone by reaching a record number of 2,00,000 messages.
The total number of species documented and discussed in this group has also crossed 10,000 species, which is about
50% of the India's flowering plant wealth. The database currently holds more than 2,00,000 images,
probably the largest digital collection of Indian plants on the web. This once
again reiterates that eFlora of India is one of the largest and
most active forums of this kind in the world, dedicated to plants of India.
The major strength
of the eFI family is its 2,400 members- team that has made this landmark growth possible.
Just to compare, in September 2010,
the group only had 1,400 members and had posted 50,000 messages covering 4,050
species. What a phenomenal growth in this short period of time!
Here is a glance on the journey of eFI during the last five years...
National Center for Natural Products Research
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Nidhan Singh
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Dr. Nidhan Singh
Department of Botany
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Giby Kuriakose
I hope the pace and the volume of information would go up in the coming days.
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Dr Santhosh Kumar
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Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode
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Kerala
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J.M. Garg
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J.M.Garg
'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'
The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image.
For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world- around 2380 members & 1,96,000 messages on 31/7/14) or Efloraofindia website (with a species database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia.
Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
Dinesh Valke
Thanks Garg ji for fantastic group.
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IUCN-SSC Orchid Specialist Group Asia
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Dr. Badri Narayanan T
Congratulations to all.
Very much indepted to all for the huge resources available and for the readily given botanical advice.
Feel should take it further with an ecological and horticultural perspective ,stressing the need for native species in all walks of life so that native insects and birds thrive.
For example, in most formal gardens , you find mostly Duranta repens as the herbaceous border. Why don't horticulturists modify any of our native shrubs like, say Glycosmis and make it suitable for the borders.
My humble suggestion.
Regards,
Badri
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Sourav Mahmud
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greenearth
EFI has reached 10,000 species : Would it not be wonderful if the best part of the EFI collections of images could be presented through Image charts. ?
I have put up a Sample Web Page Here . Please take a look..
It uses Google tools which can make this work as easy as using Windows Office.
This idea was mooted earlier on EFI , for Phyllanthaceae , by Vijaysankar-ji and Dinesh-ji. It's being done in different ways : plantsystematics.org has an organized family-genus hierarchy, and treesindia.indiabiodiversity.org has a alphabetical index under which species belonging to all families are presented. Both of these would require considerable effort to develop, and probably the work may be better out-sourced.
By contrast the flowersofindia site uses easier approach and concentrates on one species per page to present its very wide collections.
Doing it will definitely take some effort. If we have teams of volunteers, some having familiarity with common computer apps such as spreadsheets, editing etc, and some with a little more experience on creating web pages. : By parcelling the collections into groups of genera, and taking only the most unique, representative images for a given species the work load should be manageable.
Together we can make it work.
regards
ASinha
Following a post on EFI is often the beginning of a new journey
Ushadi Micromini
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J.M. Garg
J.M.Garg
'Creating awareness of Indian
Flora & Fauna'
The whole world uses my Image Resource
of more than a thousand
species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc.
(arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as
per Creative Commons license attached with each image.
For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia website (with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia.