Orchids in India are mostly confined to North-Eastern region and Western Ghats. Nagaland, a state of NE India is a hilly state with varied agro-climatic condition supports large number of orchids in different habitats. This study was an attempt for inventory of wild orchid resources of Kiphire, Tuensang and Zunheboto districts of Nagaland. Outcome of the study is the checklist of orchids diversity based on only primary data from the present study. A total of 180 species from 58 genera are collected, studied, plants are being maintained in the Orchidarium in the Department of Botany, Nagaland University. Of the, 180 species, 30 are epiphytic, 15 terrestrial, 11 are of dual habitat (terrestrial/epiphytic) and 2 are saprophytes.
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Deb et al. (2019) studied this question.