Prized for their beauty and often symbolised as luxurious, orchids have captivated nature lovers and gardening enthusiasts. But orchids are stellar and omnipresent, says a new book that documents the plant group.
The newly released inventory of India’s orchids, ‘A Checklist of the Orchidaceae of India,’ was published by the Missouri Botanical Garden. André Schuiteman, B. R. Kailash (a researcher at the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment), and Uttam Babu Shrestha are the authors. The project is supported by the Department of Biotechnology, India, SMS Family Foundation, Chris Davidson Fund, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, National Biodiversity Mission and Human Wellbeing, and the Government of India.
