Nepal Orchids in Pictures, , Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha, , Rene de Milleville, Malla Prakashan, 9993374709

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Nepal Orchids in Pictures

Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha (Author) Rene de Milleville (Author)

Synopsis Trekking in Nepal has always been a rewarding experience to all visitors because of the Himalayan diversity in nature, and nothing can Marvell flowers in depicting the diversity. This picture book on orchids has thus resulted as an outcome of intensive trekking and travelling experiences of Rene de Milleville. The book has attempted to capture most of the orchid flowers that are commonly met with during simple trekkings in Nepalese Terrain. All pictures are those of protophytic species either growing naturally in the wild or grown directly from wild collection. Artificially bred species or hybrids are not included in the 140 species and varieties presented in the book. The pictures are arranged in an alphabetical sequence of Latin names in order to express species richness in a genus. Some genus like Dendrobium has a large share of 32 pictures representing 23 species. Among other genera, the Bulbophyllum (17 Sps.), Cymbidium (12 Sps.) and Coelogyne (8 Sps.) are widely covered in the book. The highest altitudinal record of photographs in the book is that from the Everest region at 4,200 m for a pretty ground orchid Galearis Spathulata. The pattern of altitudinal distribution and flowering period is duly illustrated to determine appropriate season for a given range of altitude."

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About the authors

Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha

Born in 1937 at Kathmandu, Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha spent well over 30 years in botanical collection (1961-1991) for HMG Department of Plant Resources, through extended expeditions covering Nepal. His specimens are housed in the Kathmandu Herbarium at Godawary and also at other Herbaria like the British Museum Natural History, University Museum of Tokyo, University of Grenoble, France, and the U.S. National Herbarium at the Smithsonian. Dr, Shrestha is a life member of the Royal Nepal Academy, where he served as a member for Science and Technology for over ten years (1979-1990). He was associated with The Mountain Institute when he coordinated the Makalu Barun Conservation Project. He was the first recipient of the Senior Fellowship of ICIMOD to research on the development ecology of the Arun Basin. He joined IUCN- The World Conservation Union and coordinated programmes associated with Heritage and Biodiversity Conservation during 1991 to 1999. Currently he chairs the Nepal National Committee of IUCN members. Dr. Shrestha has B.Sc. from Tri-Chandra College, Kathmandu (1959) and M. Sc. From Aligarh Muslim University India (1962). His doctorate thesis was submitted to the University of Grenoble in France (1977). Prior to that he received intensive training in The British Museum on Nepalese Flora.

Rene de Milleville

Rene de Milleville, born in France in 1921, visited Nepal for the first time in 1962 and went on trekking to Gosainkund; after that he came back nearly every year alternating his trekkings between spring and autumn. Later between 1970 and 1973, he worked as the Flight Operations Director of Royal Nepal Airlines. He was back again for many sojourns in Nepal and trekked in many parts of the Himalaya also climbing several peaks; in addition he became more and more interested in capturing beautiful nature. Over the years he clocked the impressive number of 740 days of trekking in all seasons visiting most of the country.

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