Sayak Chakraborty

About

Senior Researcher at Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India

Employment

• Botanical Survey of India Project Associate
  2026 - Present
• Botanical Survey of India Senior Research Fellow
  2022 - 2024
• Botanical Survey of India Senior Project Fellow
  2018 - 2021
• Botanical Survey of India Junior Project Fellow
  2018 - 2018

Education

• University of Calcutta Doctor of Philosophy
  2021 - Present
• West Bengal State University Master of Science
  2015 - 2017
• University of Calcutta Bachelor of Science
  2012 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (17)

• Exploring the agarwood trade in India and its promising horizon
  H.V. Girisha, Ajay Maletha, S.P. Goyal +13 more
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2026 DOI: 10.11609/jott.10518.18.8.29532-29543
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• Notes on the identification, morphology, extended distribution, and Red-list assessment of Tropidia namasiae (Orchidaceae)
  Nelumbo 2026 DOI: 10.20324/nelumbo/v68/2026/173578
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• Notes on the typification of five names in the genera Micropera, Pomatocalpa, Trachoma and Didymoplexis (Orchidaceae)
  Oindrila Chakraborty, Sayak Chakraborty, Dinesh Kumar Agrawala +2 more
  Phytotaxa 2026 DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.750.4.5
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• A new synonym of Neottia alternifolia (King & Pantl.) Szlach. (Orchidaceae) and lectotypification of its basionym
  Sayak Chakraborty, Shuvadip Sarkar, Avishek Bhattacharjee

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  • Dinesh Kumar Agrawala
  • Debabrata Maity
  ADANSONIA 2026 DOI: 10.5252/ADANSONIA2026V48A4
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• Genetic diversity analysis in Aquilaria malaccensis (Agarwood) in India, a CITES-listed industrial crop using microsatellite markers
  INDIAN JOURNAL OF GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING 2026 DOI: 10.1007/S44489-026-00019-Y
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• Phylogenetic analysis of the Critically Endangered Aquilaria khasiana (Thymelaeaceae) using barcode markers and chloroplast genome, with updated conservation status
  RANJITH LAYOLA M.R., Sanchayita Sengupta, Bidisha Mallick +10 more
  Scientific Reports 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-08606-x
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• Khaya anthotheca (Welw.) C.DC. (Meliaceae), an addition to the flora of India from West Bengal
  Sayak Chakraborty, Saikat Naskar, Anish Kundu

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  • Biswajit Roy
  Vegetos 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s42535-025-01336-5
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• Lectotypification of Gastrodia dyeriana King & Pantl. (Orchidaceae), its threat status assessment as per IUCN guidelines and notes on its first authentic voucher specimen from Arunachal Pradesh, India
  Sayak Chakraborty, Sanchayita Sengupta, Oindrila Chakraborty +3 more
  Phytotaxa 2025 DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.2.7
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• Aquilaria khasiana: Bhattacharjee, A., Chakraborty, S., Chakraborty, O., Sengupta, S. & Mao, A.A.
  IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024 DOI: 10.2305/iucn.uk.2025-2.rlts.t88305771a268315967.en
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• Tainia epiphytica sp. nov. (Orchidaceae), a new species from North East India
  Shuvadip Sarkar, Dinesh Kumar Agrawala, Sayak Chakraborty +2 more
  Phytotaxa 2023 DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.578.2.4
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• Geodorum laxiflorum (Orchidaceae) relectotypified
  Swarnendu Mondal, Kasturi Chakraborty, Sayak Chakraborty +3 more
  Nordic Journal of Botany 2023 DOI: 10.1111/njb.03908
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• Nomenclatural consequences of some new combinations and replacement names in Eulophia (Orchidaceae: Eulophiinae)
  Bhattacharjee A., Bandyopadhyay S., Chakraborty K.

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  • Sardar S.
  • Sourav Mondal
  • Chakraborty S.
  • S. Sarkar
  Rheedea 2023 DOI: 10.22244/RHEEDEA.2023.33.03.09
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• Two New Additions to the Orchid Flora of Mizoram, India
  Shuvadip Sarkar, Dinesh Kumar Agrawala, Sayak Chakraborty

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  • Debabrata Maity
  • Suptotthita Choudhury
  Nelumbo 2022 DOI: 10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/172594
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• Notes on the taxonomy, typification, extended distribution and red list assessment of Bulbophyllum nodosum — an endemic and endangered orchid from India
  Shreyasi Nayak, Dinesh Kumar Agrawala, Sayak Chakraborty +3 more
  Botany Letters 2022 DOI: 10.1080/23818107.2022.2043182
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• Notes on the identity, distribution and Red list assessment of Phreatia albofarinosa (Orchidaceae), a poorly known species from India
  Jardin Botanique de Guyane - RICHARDIANA 2021
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• Notes on Aphyllorchis gollanii and Aphyllorchis alpina (Orchidaceae) and lectotypification of both names
  Jardin Botanique de Guyane - RICHARDIANA 2021
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• Stereochilus erinaceus (Rchb.f.) Garay (Orchidaceae)- A New Distributional Record for India with Notes on Its Relationships and Threat Status Assessment
  J. Orchid Soc. India 2020 DOI: 10.64873/josi.v34.i1-2.149-153
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