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Volume 64, Issue 2, December 2022

Articles

Two New Additions to the Orchid Flora of Mizoram, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/172594

Published 2022-12-31

  • Shuvadip Sarkar
    • ,
  • Dinesh Kumar Agrawala
    • ,
  • Sayak Chakraborty
    • ,
  • Debabrata Maity
    • ,
  • Suptotthita Choudhury

Shuvadip Sarkar
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah-711103

Dinesh Kumar Agrawala
Botanical Survey of India, CGO Complex, 3rd MSO building, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700064

Sayak Chakraborty
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah-711103

Debabrata Maity
Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road-700019, West Bengal

Suptotthita Choudhury
Department of Botany, Gurudas College, Kolkata 700054

Abstract

Acanthephippium striatum Lindl. and Phreatia elegans Lindl. are reported for the first time from Mizoram. Detailed morphological description along with photograph, information on habitat, phenology and distribution is provided.

Keywords

Distribution, NE India, New record, Orchidaceae, Taxonomy

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