| This paper investigated the wild resource of orchid flowers of Dinghushan mountain.The results show
that: The wild orchid flower resources in this area are rich and have high ornamental value with 43 species in 27
genus which divided into 3 life types including terrestrial type, epiphytic type and half-epiphytic type. The wild
orchid flower in this area are classified as 3 ornamental types including flowering plants, foliage plants, flowering and
foliage plants and most of them are flowering and foliage plants. The paper also studied on the appreciation of them
and assessed through scoring criteria of 13 ornamental indicators based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The
Comprehensive Evaluation were used to determined different ornamental gradations of the wild orchids flowers in
Dinghushan mountain and found that there are 28 species (percent of the total number of wild orchids is 65.1%)
which have very high and high ornamental value (ornamental grades are Grade玉and Grade域). Accordingly, rational
recommendations on exploitation and utilization of wild orchid flower resources in Dinghushan mountain areproposed |
