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Rare orchid named after Manipuri who discovered it
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Sobhapati Samom
Hindustan Times
NEW DELHI, India, Sept. 8 -- For the first time UK's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of the world's leading botanic gardens, has recognised a rare orchid variety found in Manipur.
Locally known as Kwaklei Angouba, the rare orchid has been renamed Vanda coerulea forma luwang alba after its discoverer Luwangba Arambam of Takyel Khongbal Leirak Achouba in Imphal's western district.
"This is the first time a white-flowered form of Vanda coerulea from India has been recorder and described" claimed Royal Horticulture Society's journal The Orchid review, in its ...
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