Under the action plan of the department on micropropagation of rare, endangered and threatened plant species of North East india,
studies on seed germination of Paphiopedilum species were taken up for large-scale rapid multiplication. The resuits on the in vitro
seed germination studies of P. fairrieanum, P. hirsutissimum, P. insigne, P. spicerianum, P. venustum and P. villosum are presented in
the paper.