Checklist of orchids from a mid elevation evergreen forest at Kakachi-Kodayar, Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Agasthyamalai, southern Western Ghats

The forests at Kakachi-Kodayar (77o 24’N & 8o 32’E, 1200-1550m), in Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, part of Agasthyamalai range in the southern part of the Western Ghats (see map) support one of the species-rich forest site (Ganesh et al., 1996).Though some part of the forest is lost to the dam, plantations, logging and Ochlandra spp. (reed bamboo) extraction, it still supports dense contiguous forest of subtropical wet evergreen, subtropical montane and shola forest types surrounded by grasslands.