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Volume 64, Issue 2, December 2022

Articles

Exclusion of two Bulbophyllum species from Orchid Flora of India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/172589

Published 2022-12-31

  • Shreyasi Nayak
    • ,
  • D.K. Agrawala
    • ,
  • Jeewan Singh Jala
    • ,
  • D. Maity
    • ,
  • Suptotthita Choudhury

Shreyasi Nayak
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah - 7111032

D.K. Agrawala
Botanical Survey of India, CGO Complex, Block F (6th floor), DF Block, Sector 1, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700064

Jeewan Singh Jala
Botanical Survey of India, CGO Complex, Block F (6th floor), DF Block, Sector 1, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700064

D. Maity
Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata - 700019

Suptotthita Choudhury
Department of Botany, Gurudas College, Kolkata - 700054

Abstract

Bulbophyllum dickasonii Seidenf. and Bulbophyllum proboscideum (Gagnep.) Seidenf. & Smitinand [Orchidaceae-Epidendroideae-Malaxideae-Dendrobiinae] are known from India by their only record from Manipur in 2014 and 2016 respectively. The two reports from India have been studied in comparison with their respective type specimens and protologues and found both the reports are based on mis-identification. The specimen identified earlier as Bulbophyllum dickasonii has been found as Bulbophyllum wallichii Rchb.f., whereas the record of Bulbophyllum proboscideum could be re-identified as Bulbophyllum appendiculatum (Rolfe) J.J. Sm. Thus, the two former species are excluded from Orchid Flora of India.

Keywords

Bulbophyllum, Flora of India, identification, Orchidaceae, Taxonomy

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