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Volume 61, Issue 2, December 2019

Articles

Notes on an endemic genus Odisha (Orchidaceae) and its two subspecies from Odisha, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v61/2019/149463

Published 2019-12-07

  • Sarat Misra

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

Abstract

The present communication reinstate the genus Odisha S. Misra and the subspecies Odisha cleistantha subsp. cleistantha (Subtribe Odishinae: tribe Orchideae: Orchidaceae). An in-depth discussion of the typical characters (which is observed as constant in series of biotypes) of the genus Odisha has also been provided here to counter for its erroneous merger in the genus Habenaria Willd. based on characters of secondary importance. Comparative illustrations have also been provided in support of our finding revealed from study of a large number of biotypes from Odisha state, India. A key to both the subspecies of Odisha cleistantha i.e., Odisha cleistantha subsp. cleistantha and subsp. flabellata has been also given here.

Keywords

Endemic, Odisha, Orchids, Haberania

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