The following is a selection of books on Orchids published in India. Please click on Details to see detailed description of that particular title.

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Updated March, 2009

Conservation of Wild Orchids of Kodagu in the Western Ghats/T. Ananda Rao. Bangalore, Centre for Technology Dept., 1998, 242 p., 65 figs., 31 col plates., (pbk). Details No. 60692

About Orchids: A Chat/F. Boyle. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1994, xv, 250 p., 8 colour plates, $31. Details No. 31319 

Beautiful Orchids of Nepal/Keshab R. Rajbhandari and Sushila Bhattarai. Kathmandu, 2001, vii, 220 p., $66. ISBN 99933-518-3-0. Details No. 23173

Biotechnology of Orchids/Jayaram Reddy. New Delhi, I.K. International Publishing House, 2008, x, 358 p., 78 black and white figs., 36 colour plates, tables, ISBN 81-88237-67-1. Details No. 57651

Catalogo Descriptive De Las Orquideas Cubanas/I.J.A. Gale. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1987, iii, 221p., $25. ISBN 81-211-0012-7. Details No. 31320 

A Catalogue of Indian Orchids/C. Sathish Kumar and K.S. Manilal. 1994, 162 p., 64 col. plates, figs., maps, $30. Details No. 9905

Century of Indian Orchids/J.D. Hooker. Reprint. Dehra Dun, IBD, 1978, xii, 68p., 101 plates,  $132. Details No. 31322 

Contributions to the Orchidology of India/Lindley. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1982, Part 1-2 bound in one volume, 170-190 & 1-64 p., $11. Details No. 31323

Ecological and Anatomical Marvels of the Himalayan Orchids/Purshotam Kaushik. New Delhi, Today and Tomorrow's, 1983, viii, 123 p., 71 plates on art paper, $33. ISBN 81-7019-135-1. Details No. 31324

Folia Orchidaceae: An Enumeration of the Known Species of Orchids/Lindley. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1983, 444 p.,  $63. Details No. 31325

Guide to the Orchids of Sikkim/P.A. Bruhl. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1993, xvi, 208 p., $11. Details No. 31326

Native Orchids of Trinidad and Tobago/R.E.Schultes. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1987, xii, 275 p., figs., & line drawings, $79. ISBN 81-211-0013-5. Details No. 31329

Nepal Orchids in Pictures : 140 Species and Varieties/Rene De Milleville and Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha. Kathmandu, Malla Prakashan, 2004, viii, 120 p., $55 (pbk) ISBN 99933-747-0-9.  Details No. 35469

Notes on Orchideae/G. Bentham. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1985, 281-360 p., [Extracted from Journal of the Linnean Society Vol. XVIII] $11.  Details No. 31330

Orchidaceae (Flora of Jamaica, Vol. 1)/W. Fawcett. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1982, xvii, 150 p., 32 plates, $31. Details No. 31333

Orchidaceae of Arunachal Pradesh (Checklist)/H.J. Chowdhery and G.D. Pal. 1997, 148 p., $40. ISBN 81-211-0157-3. [Higher Plants of the Indian Subcontinent, Volume VII]. Details No. 13985

Orchidaceae of Mexico/L.O. Williams. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1986, 348 p., $31. Details No. 31335

Orchidaceae: In Flora of Tropical Africa/R.A. Rolfe. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1984, xvi, 578 p., $42. Details No. 31336

Orchidaceae: In Flora of the Presidency of Madras/J.S. Gamble. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1984, 80 p., $11.  Details No. 31337

Orchid Culture : In Ceylon and the East/F.A.E. Price. Reprint. New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 2003, 124 p., $22. ISBN 81-206-1849-1. Details No. 34489

Orchid Flora of Arunachal Pradesh/H.J. Chowdhery. 1998, xx, 824 p., colour photographs, line drawings,  $375. Details No. 14532

Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam (with Illustrations)/Iswar Chandra Barua. Dehra Dun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2001, 207 p., colour plates, line drawings, $41. ISBN 81-211-0196-4. Details No. 19418

Orchid Genera in Thailand (I, II and III Bound in One)/Gunnar Seidenfaden. Dehra Dun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2006, 224 p., plates, figs., $90. ISBN 81-211-0594-3. Details No. 53546

Orchid Genera in Thailand VI : Neottioideae Lindl./Gunnar Seidenfaden. Dehra Dun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2006, 196 p., figs., $90. ISBN 81-211-0597-8.  Details No. 53695

Orchid Genera in Thailand, VIII : Bulbophyllum Thou/Gunnar Seidenfaden. Reprint. First published in Copenhagen in 1979 as part of Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bind 33, Nr. 3. 1990, 228 p., 12 col. plates, 158 figures,  $88 (Vol. III). Details No. 6716

Orchid Memories : A Tribute to Gunnar Seidenfaden/edited by K.S. Manilal and C. Sathish Kumar. Calicut, Mentor Books, 2004, xiii, 265 p., 96 plates, figs., tables, $106. ISBN 81-900324-6-1. Details No. 37020

Orchid Stud-Book/R.A. Rolfe. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1986, xlviii, 327 p., $47. ISBN 81-211-0003-8. Details No. 31332

Orchids : Botany, Breeding, Cultivation, Uses and Post-Harvest Management/S.K. Bhattacharjee and S.P. Das. Jaipur, Aavishkar, 2008, xxii, 396 p., 55 drawings, 144 col. plates, ISBN 81-7910-259-6.  Details No. 57650

Orchids: Science and Commerce/Promila Pathak, R.N. Sehgal, Navdeep Shekhar, Madhu Sharma and Anil Sood. Dehra Dun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2001, xxxvi, 521 p., tables, figs., $83. ISBN 81-211-0271-5. Details No. 24396

Orchids in India/edited by J.K. Maheshwari, G. Kunkel, M.M. Bhandari and J.A. Duke. 1995, 144 p., figs., plates, bibliography, $40. [Originally published in the Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany, Additional series No. 11, 1995].Details No. 10505

Orchids of Burma (Including the Andaman Islands)/B. Grant. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1995, 424 p., $66. Details No. 31340

Orchids of East Africa /F. Piers. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1984, 304 p., 6 figs., 116 plates, 1 map, $53. Details No. 31342

Orchids of Guatemala, 2 vols/O. Ames. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1991, 2 Vols., xiii, 793 p., 197 figs., $32 (set). Details No. 31341

Orchids of India : Commercialization and Conservation/Jauti Sharma. 1996, vi, 156 p., colored and black & white plates, $29. Details No. 10939

Orchids of India – II : Biodiversity and Status of Bulbophyllum Thou./Johns Augustine, Yogendra Kumar and Jauti Sharma. Delhi, Daya, 2001, viii, 113 p., $31. ISBN 81-7035-233-9. Details No. 21049

Orchids of India : A Glimpse/Sarat Misra. Dehra Dun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2007, x, 402 p., figs., $85. ISBN 81-211-0618-4.  Details No. 53694

Orchids of Kumaun Himalaya/Y.P.S. Pangtey, S.S. Samant and G.S. Rawat. 1991, 193 p., $36. Details No. 6717

Orchids of Mussoorie/M.B. Raizada. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1981, ii, 100 p., 5 plates, $11. Details No. 31346

Orchids of Nagaland/T.M. Hynniewta, S.K. Kataki and B.M. Wadhwa/edited by P.K. Hajra and U. Chatterjee. Calcutta, Botanical Survey of India, 2000, 306 p., 88 line drawings, colour photographs, $66. Details No. 19419

Orchids of Nagaland/S.C. Deorani and H.B. Naithani. 1995, 364 p., 84 plates, $52. Details No. 10238

Orchids of Nepal/M.L. Banerjee. Second Revised Edition. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1982, ii, 135 p., $14. Details No. 31348

Orchids of North-Western Himalaya/J.F. Duthie. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1979, ii, 211 p., 58 plates, $132. Details No. 31349

Orchids of Orissa/Sarat Misra. Dehra Dun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2004, xii. 774 p., plates, $140. ISBN 81-211-0389-4.  Details No. 40900

Orchids of Sikkim Himalaya/G. King. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1979, xi, 342 p., 448 plates, $286. Details No. 31350

The Orchids of Sikkim and North East Himalaya/S.Z. Lucksom. Gangtok, S.Z. Lucksom, 2007, lxiv, 984 p., 541 b/w figs., 39 col. plates, ISBN 81-7525-863-1.  Details No. 59969

Proceedings of the Second World Orchid Conference, Sept. 19-23, 1957. Hono Lulu Hawaii/G.W.Dillon. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1986, xii, 253 p., $31. ISBN 81-211-0004-6. Details No. 31351

Schedulae Orchidianae/O. Ames. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1983, 10 parts bound in one vol., 594 p., 63 figs., $88. Details No. 31352

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae/O. Ames. Reprint. Dehra Dun, BSMPS, 1982, 7 volumes, lxiv, 1611 p., 144 plates, $248 (set). Details No. 31353

Wild Orchids in Karnataka : A Pictorial Compendium/T. Ananda Rao and S. Sridhar. Bangalore, Institute of Natural Resources Conservation, 2007, 152 p., 78 col. plates, 73 figs., (pbk). ISBN 81-89650-18-1.  Details No. 60691

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