Excellent Prasad ji On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Prasad Dash <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear members before writing about the species i must thank my friend and > Dr. orchid of India Pankaj for his motivation which influenced me to see > this rarest orchid (Especially for Odisha) in wild. last year the same > plant was posted in the group and cud not be identified due to lack of > close up of flowers. Pankaj simply said without flower no id for orchid. I > remembered those lines and waited for one year and went to the same place > during the flowering period. Last year i sighted a very large patch of this > orchid growing in a semi-evergreen forest. Strangly when i visited the same > place i only found 8 trees with this gorgeous orchid due to habitat loss > (Deforestation). > > Name: pomatocalpa decipens > Place of collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh, Odisha > habit: Epiphyte > habitat: Semi-evergreen forest > Distribution in Odisha: Similipal and Ranpur (New record for this place) > Ecology: Growing in Trees like Cleistanthus patulus, Polyalthia > cerassoides and Memycelon sp. > > Regards > > P............ > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Odisha, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 > -- Dr Satish Phadke
