Category: About eFI website

Fwd: Any use?- Posting on efloraofindia page in Facebook : 21 posts by 1 author. For quite some time, I have been posting updates regarding updating our families and genera with comparative images. Is there any use of such postings (except for getting some likes/ engagements), as I am not much familiar with Facebook working ? […]

Which database to follow? : 15 posts by 1 author. While following different databases for last few years, I have seen totally different taxonomic treatments in these: Kew Database (Plants of The World Online), World Flora Online (replacement for TPL) and Catalogue of Life (April 2020 Beta version).      I have mostly been following […]

Fwd: Ideas for our future efloraofindia : 43 posts by 2 authors. Ideas are all powerful. As one idea from … of creating efloraofindia site around 10 years back, resulted in all these efforts being combined and displayed all over the world.There may be many ideas looming in all of yours mind all the while, […]

efloraofIndia in wiienvis.nic.in : 12 posts by 4 authors. I just accidentally found this site of ENVIS Centre on Wildlife & Protected Areas, hosted by WII, giving link of Indian & Global Species Databases mentioning efloraofindia at no. 2. Good! Our forum is having that much value … Yes. … I am aware of this. I regularly receive […]

Fwd: Inclusion of new species in efloraofindia : 9 posts by 1 author. As you are aware we Efloraofindia site already have around 13,000 species displayed with images from all over the India subcontinent, which is seen all over the world.But a lot of species/ subsp./ varieties/ new records etc. which you have published, may not have […]

Incorporating your images in efloraofindia : 4 posts by 1 author. As your may all be aware, efloraofindia is striving to bring live images of Plants/ Ferns/ Fungi etc. of Indian subcontinent, for past 13 years, at our site so that these become useful to all concerned.  May I request members to mail your images/ specimens to efloraofindia , so that these can be […]

efloraofindiaturns 13:  11 posts by 3 authors. A journey inspired by the book “The Monk who sold his Ferrari” and started on 18th June 2007 has become 13 years old. It is no more a solitary affair, rather, has grown into a huge carvan. Today on 17th June 2020 eFI (efloraofindia: Database of Plants of Indian Subcontinent- developed by the […]

WE ARE IN THE TEENS NOW: Efloraofindia completed 13 years : 20 posts by 14 authors. Thirteen years back, on this day “efloraofindia” was started as “indiatreepix” and I must say that it has been a long journey since day one. Although I joined late, I couldn’t, even in my dreams, imagine, how a small […]

Posts leading to publication of new species : 11 posts by 3 authors. Within a short period of a month, we have found that three new species has been published, much after there postings in efloraofindia, as below:   Thunbergia kasajuana Dendrophthoe gamblei Piper dravidii Mostly authors were aware of the postings on efloraofindia.   This only goes on show […]

Efloraofindia helping in discovering new species : 4 posts by 2 authors. Efloraofindia is helping in discovering new species, an example of that can be this post by Lalithamba ji: Submission of Dendrophthoe cuneata  This post was forwarded to the author in Sept. 2016 and a new species which appears to be same has been published as […]

Now we are able to tell the world : 8 posts by 4 authors. Now we have ‘Database of Plants of Indian Subcontinent- developed by the members of the Efloraofindia Google Group’ written at the top on all the pages. Earlier we had it only on the home page, which many may not be visiting or […]

Change in the attachment size for postings on the efi group. : 9 posts by 7 authors. Posting Guidelines have been modified so that posted attachment size is 150 KB or more (with minimum size of 1000 by 800 pixels or more). However, members are requested to post as big size as possible in pixels by […]

Photographic and textual keys are complementary : 5 posts by 2 authors. 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 […]

Could we think of restoring interactions on efloraofindia? : 15 posts by 2 authors. I must salute Garg ji and few other members doing the great job updating our website and correcting identifications, if any ones are wrong. I must also point out that interactions have greatly reduced in recent months. If I find any interesting […]

  International Symposium on Plant taxonomy & Ethnobotany 2020-BSI, Kolkata : 18 posts by 7 authors. Attachments (7) I am pleased to share that I have got one more opportunity to represent efloraofindia among a galaxy of plant taxonomists from various parts of India as well as from various prestigious institutions throughout the world like Royal Botanical […]

Links not opening in my mobile : 2 posts by 2 authors. I shall be thankful if you have any idea as to how to set right the problem :  When I click (place my finger) to open the link it is showing a screen almost black with some arrow etc  at the bottom of […]

Process of identification : 10 posts by 2 authors. For efloraofindia, not only identification, but process of identification is also important.  It shows how we are looking into similar species and ignoring them on what basis. It also shows on what sources and keys etc., we are basing our oberservations. It also throws up similar […]

More than 2,00,000 images inserted : It is a pleasure to state that more than 2,00,000 unique images have been inserted in efi site and are directly displayed in thumbnail size. On clicking on these thumbnails, leads to large size images as are originally posted by our members. Members have already posted more than 3,00,00 unique images […]

efi site also offers clues : 5 posts by 3 authors. Efi site not only helps in ids and validation, but also provides clues to the id of the plant. To give an example, take this thread: Pali near Khopoli, MH :: Small plant for ID :: ARK2019-64 We all struggled to get the id. […]

Importance of eforaofindia site : 27 posts by 6 authors. I got an insightful comments, mentioned in one thread by … (who is deeply involved in Indian Flora facebook group and recently in efi group) as per one thread as below: “For identification of species, I primarily rely on FOI and EFI. Google is helpful too, […]