Environment
In
Arunachal’s Sessa orchid Sanctuary communities collaborate with forest officers
to conserve orchids
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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.
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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.
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The Arunachal himalayas
(formerly known as assam Himalayas) should be described by botanists as a
treasure trove of orchids.
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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’.
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Orchids in india The
1,256 species or taxa of orchids belong are found in India.
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388 species of orchids
ar endemic to India of that regarding one-third (128) endemic species are found
in Western Ghats.
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While north-east india
rank at the highest in species concentration, the Western Ghats have high
endemism of orchids.
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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.
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Categories Orchids will
be broadly categorized into 3 life forms: (1) epiphytic, (2) terrestrial and
(3) mycoheterotrophic.
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About 757 species or
sixty percent of all orchids found within the country are epiphytic, 447 are
terrestrial and forty three are mycoheterotrophic.
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Economic importance the
sole commercially vital product derived from orchids is vanilla.
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Most vanilla is
manufacture from one species, vanilla planifolia.
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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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