NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLGOY PROJECT ON SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF PLANT BIODIVERSITY 

 

Project:  “Survey and Collection, evaluation, maintenance of Orchids and ornamental bulbous plants germplasm from North Eastern Hill Region”

 

 Objectives:  

  • Survey, inventorization and collection of germplasm of orchids and ornamental flowering plants from North Eastern Hill region.

  • Maintenance, evaluation and genetic enhancement of orchids and bulbous flowering plants . 

  • Conservation and documentation.

  • Over one dozen explorations were carried out in various parts of North Eastern Hills and other parts of India.

  • Collected more than 400 accessions of Orchids, 50 species of bulbous flowering plants and more than 70 orchid hybrids.

  • Among the collections, some of them were rare and new species/ genera. 

  • Morphological characterization of orchids and other flowering plants was taken up for about 18 important floral and morphological characters.

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Exploration and collection of Orchids and bulbous flowers from North Eastern Hills

Areas Explored

Trips

Accessions Collected
Arunachal Pradesh and Parts of Assam

4

270

Darjeeling District of West Bengal

6

160

Manipur and Mizoram

1

32

Meghalaya

1

51

Mizoram

1

37

Sikkim

10

200

Tripura

1

15

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