- A forest officer of Assam has discovered a variant of a Japanese orchid, that is India’s one of smallest orchids in terms of size and duration of bloom to be recorded botanically.
- According to the Japanese Journal of Botany, Lecanorchis taiwaniana, is a mycoheterotroph, one of two types of parasitic plants that have abandoned photosynthesis. It has been named after Taiwan.
- India has some 1300 species of orchids, Northeast has 800 species. About 300 species are found in the Western Ghats and 200 in the northwestern Himalayas.
- The orchid was discovered earlier in Japan, Taiwan, and Laos, and was found to have a maximum height of 40 cm and a blossoming period of five-six days.
