Current Affairs - State - Discussion

India's Smallest Orchids named "Lecanorchis Taiwaniana", a parasitic bloom, was discovered in Assam by a forest officer Jatindra Sarma who is a Member Secretary of State Medicinal plants Board. It is small in terms of size as well as its tenure of bloom. It is a mycoheterotroph, a parasitic plant that has deserted the process of photosynthesis. The discovery was published in a Japanese Journal named Journal of Botany. For the first time, this small variant of Japanese Orchid is found in India. It was earlier discovered in Japan, Taiwan and Laos.