• The parasitic bloom is a variant of a Japanese orchid
• Discovery has given India one of its smallest orchids in terms of size and duration of bloom to be recorded botanically.
• Lecanorchis taiwaniana, which the Japanese Journal of Botany has published as a “new record for the flora in India” in its latest issue, is a mycoheterotroph, one of two types of parasitic plants that have abandoned photosynthesis.