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In Arunachal’s Sessa orchid Sanctuary communities collaborate with forest officers to conserve orchids

·        The Sessa orchid Sanctuary, discover in the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, was the 1st, and before recently the only, protected area within the country dedicated to the preservation of naturally growing orchids.

·        Notified in 1989, Sessa orchid Sanctuary is home to 236 orchid species, many of them rare and endemic, with unique botanical worth, and thesanctuary has also been used as an ex-situ conservation site for threatened orchids.

·        The Arunachal himalayas (formerly known as assam Himalayas) should be described by botanists as a treasure trove of orchids.

·        Indeed, Arunachal Pradesh, with around 622 recorded orchid species that is forty per cent of the overall orchid species found in the country, is known because the ‘Orchid Paradise of India’.

·        Orchids in india The 1,256 species or taxa of orchids belong are found in India.

·        388 species of orchids ar endemic to India of that regarding one-third (128) endemic species are found in Western Ghats.

·        While north-east india rank at the highest in species concentration, the Western Ghats have high endemism of orchids.

·        The highest numeral of orchid species is recorded from Arunachal Pradesh with 612 species, followed by sikkim 560 species and west bengal. Among the ten bio geographic zones of india, the himalayan zone is that the richest in terms of orchid species followed by Northeast, Western Ghats, Deccan upland and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

·        Categories Orchids will be broadly categorized into 3 life forms: (1) epiphytic, (2) terrestrial and (3) mycoheterotrophic.

·        About 757 species or sixty percent of all orchids found within the country are epiphytic, 447 are terrestrial and forty three are mycoheterotrophic.

·        Economic importance the sole commercially vital product derived from orchids is vanilla.

·        Most vanilla is manufacture from one species, vanilla planifolia.

·        The principal vanilla-growing areas are Madagascar, Mexico, french polynesia, Réunion, Dominica, Indonesia, the west indies, Seychelles, and Puerto rico. varied different orchids are used for a variety of people medicines and cures. 

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