Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Tapan Kumar Giri, Sashikala Beura, Swarnasarika Behera, Subhadarsini Pradhan, Subhasmita Sahu and Subrat Kumar Senapati

Abstract:
Cymbidium spp. a major orchid genera, which is of immense floricultural importance in world trade is of Indo-Malaysian origin and also abundantly found in Odisha. The experiment conducted by using three different Cymbidium aloifolium genotypes from three different geographical locations of Odisha from three different host plants were used for qualitative morphological evaluation by visual estimation. The difference in flowering morphology was evident from the shape, apex, colour and ornamentation of the sepal, petal, lip in the three genotypes. Inflorescence orientation, flowering season, ornamentation types were also found different in all the three genotypes. Qualitative evaluation and characterization of all the three genotypes depicted that the variation observed among the genotypes are genetic and least influenced by the host plants or geographical conditions.