ORCHID SPECIES-ANDAMAN & NICOBAR

ORCHID SPECIES DATABASE
INDIAN SPECIES MAP-ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS.

ANDAMAN NICOBAR ISLANDS REGION
Consisting of about a group of 319 islands and islets they are situated in the Bay of Bengal.The Andaman group covers a gross length of 464 km and Nicobar group of about 293 kms.The northmost island , the landfall island, is about 190 kms south of Burma and the south most island, about 150 kms northwest of sumatra.
There are arecord number of 104 species, 1 subspecies and 1 variety in 53 genera. It has been reported that around 16 species and one variety are endemic out of which Grosourdya, Macropodanthus, Malleola, and Plocoglottis recorded are not found in Mainland India.The Burmese-Thai elements are represented by Bulbophylllum crassipes, B.rufinum, Cleisostoma elegans and Coelogyne quadratiloba are recorded from Andamans.
Malaysian elements are represented by Appendicula reflexa, Dendrobium pensile, Phalenopsis tetrapsis and Schoenorchis minutiflora, recorded from Nicobars. Continuous deforestation and tree felling has resulted in the loss of very many endemic species... Unless some kind of conservationery measures are not taken we may lose some rare species...

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