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Orchids are one of the largest groups of flowering plants exhibiting an incredible range of diversity in size, shape, structure, number and colour of the flowers. They are spread practically all over the world, but particularly abundant in the warm humid tropics. India is a major orchid-rich habitat with nearly 1350 species. More than half of this grows in the north eastern region of the country.
The state of Odisha located in the east of India has rich ...
Orchids are known for their beautiful flowers. They are also the most advanced family in the flowering plants. The botanical speciality and horticultural importance of orchids are narrated in the introduction of the book. The preface gives a picture of the earlier botanical account of Orissa. A brief account of the geography of the State, the distribution of orchid, account of the orchidrich habitats of the State have been provided. Important aspects like the ...
This book aims at providing the readers a brief picture of the orchid wealtho f India. The geographical regions, diverse habitats and the distribution of orchids in India, both region-wise and altitude-wise, have been provided under Ecology. The life form, growth habit and morphology of the Indian orchids have been discussed under Morphology. A large number of figures of the habit, inflorescence, flower, lip, column, stigma and restellum, anther ...