CONCLUSION
Out of many medicinal aromatic plants, many orchids
have been used as traditional system of medicines.
Orchidaceae is one of largest family among
angiosperms with more than 30,000 species of 750
genera in the world. Orchids are nature's most extravagant group of flowering plants distributed
throughout the world from tropics to high alpine. They
exhibit incredible range of diversity in size, shape
and colour of their flowers. Though orchids are grown
primarily as ornamentals, many are used as herbal
medicines, food, and other have cultural value by
different
cultures and tribes in different parts of the world.
However, this natural orchid wealth of the environmentas a whole and of this region in particular, is yet to be
judiciously utilized and managed to harvest economic
benefit. Moreover, there is always the danger of losing
most of the valuable orchid wealth, unless scientific
conservation measures are taken along with proper
utilization. This is evident from the very painful fact
that many of these beautiful, once abundant species,
are now rare and some of them are already no more
visible in the wild [11].