National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Dendrobium species are the popular orchids in tropical countries and they are considered as most fascinating plants. Today orchids our precious heritage, have become rare, vulnerable, endangered, threatened and are suffering from a dubious future as its population is affected by over exploitation for therapeutic and ornamental purposes. To conserve and to study there floral characteristicsof Dendrobium wild orchid species, pot experiment was conducted which comprising of six endangered Dendrobium wild orchid species, collected from Western Ghats of Kodagu District viz., Dendrobium barbatalum Lindl., Dendrobium jeradonianum Wight., Dendrobium herbaceum Lindl., Dendrobium heterocarpum Wall. ex Lindl., Dendrobium macrostachyum Lindl. and Dendrobium ovatum (L.) Kraenz. The results reveled that Dendrobium heterocarpum Wall. ex Lindl. have showed a maximum pedicel length (2.50 cm), dorsal sepal length & width (3.22, 1.07 cm ), lateral sepal length & width ( 3.37, 0.97 cm), petal length &petal width (3.10, 1.23 cm), labellum length & labellum width (2.90, 2.00 cm). The flower longevity of 26 days was recorded in Dendrobium ovatum (L.) Kraenz. Whereas maximum number of flowers per plant was found in Dendrobium macrostachyum Lindl. (28.33).
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