... Critical examination of the live specimens under stereomicroscope along with consultation of protologue, and relevant literature (Bhattacharjee, 2012;Bhattacharjee & Chowdhery, 2018;Hooker, 1890;Karthikeyan et al., 1989;Kumar & Manilal, 1994;Misra, 2007;Misra, 2019;Singh et al., 2001;Singh et al., 2019) and study of the herbarium specimens preserved at APFH, ARUN, ASSAM, BSHC, CAL, LBG, Orchid Herbarium Tipi (OHT), BM, E, K, P, etc., it has revealed that the species does not match with any reported species of Cheirostylis from India. However, further consultation of relevant literature (Hsu et al., 2020;Lin et al., 2016;Lin, 2019Lin, , 2020Xinqi et al., 2009;Ying, 1996) on related non-Indian species of the genus have revealed its identity as Cheirostylis tortilacinia C. S. Leou, which constitutes the first distributional record of the species from India. The voucher specimens have been prepared according to the standard herbarium procedure and deposited at CAL and the herbarium of GBPNIHE-NERC. ...