Cheirostylis Blume (Orchidaceae), a new generic record for the Eastern Ghats, India

Prasad Kumar Dash; Avishek Bhattacharjee; Pankaj Kumar; Pratyush Mohapatra

doi:10.11609/JoTT.o4139.6826-9

Journal of Threatened Taxa (Jan 2015)

Cheirostylis Blume (Orchidaceae), a new generic record for the Eastern Ghats, India

Prasad Kumar Dash,
Avishek Bhattacharjee,
Pankaj Kumar,
Pratyush Mohapatra

Affiliations

Prasad Kumar Dash: Odisha Biodiversity Board, Regional Plant Resource Centre Campus, Forest & Environment Department of Government of Odisha, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751015, India
Avishek Bhattacharjee: Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, West Bengal 711103, India
Pankaj Kumar: Orchid Conservation Section, Flora Conservation Department, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation, Lam Kam Road, Lam Tsuen, Tai Po, Hong Kong
Pratyush Mohapatra: Odisha Biodiversity Board, Regional Plant Resource Centre Campus, Forest & Environment Department of Government of Odisha, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751015, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o4139.6826-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 6826 – 6829

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Cheirostylis parvifoliaLindl. (Orchidaceae) has been discovered from the Mahendragiri hills of Gajapati district of Odisha, part of the Eastern Ghats, India growing at an elevation of 900 m constituting a new record of the genus Cheirostylis Blume for Eastern India. The present finding shows an extension of its range of distribution from the Western to the Eastern Ghats of India.

Published in Journal of Threatened Taxa

ISSN: 0974-7893 (Print); 0974-7907 (Online)
Publisher: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society
Country of publisher: India
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General): Ecology; Science: Natural history (General): General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution
Website: https://threatenedtaxa.org/

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