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Volume 60, Issue 2, December 2018

Articles

A new subspecies of Odisha cleistantha (Orchidaceae) from Koraput district of Odisha, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v60/2018/140933

Published 2018-12-31

  • Sarat Misra

Sarat Misra
Orchid Study Centre, C-89 HIG, Baramunda Housing Board Colony, Bhubaneswar – 751 003, Odisha

Abstract

Odisha cleistantha S. Misra subsp. flabellata S. Misra is described from the Koraput district of Odisha. It differs from its typical form (subsp. cleistantha) in having a flabelliform labellum and divergent stigma lobes of the flower.

Keywords

Odisha, Orchidaceae, New Subspecies, Koraput, India.

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References

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