“…Terrestrial orchids are quite different than epiphytic orchids in terms of asymbiotic seed germination protocol (De Pauw et al, 1995). There are numerous previous studies about asymbiotic germination using different media formulations on several terrestrial orchids genera such as Cypripedium (Chu and Mudge, 1996;De Pauw et al, 1996;Szendrak, 1997;Yan et al, 2006;Bae and Choi, 2008;Klavina et al, 2009;Huh et al, 2016;Huh et al, 2019), Dactylorhiza (Laurent et al, 2014;Gümüş et al, 2017), Serapias (Gümüş and Ellialtioglu, 2012;Bektas and Sokmen, 2016;Calevo et al, 2017;Acemi and Ozen, 2019), Cephalanthera (Szendrak, 1997;Hemrova et al, 2019), Paphiopedilum (Lee, 2007;Zeng et al, 2012), Chloraea (Pereira et al, 2017;Quiroz et al, 2017), Bletia (Dutra et al, 2008), Geodorum (Bhadra and Hossain, 2003), Habenaria (Stewart and Kane, 2006), Peristylus (Thakur and Dongarwar, 2017), Anacamptis (Magrini et al, 2019), Bipinnula (Pereira et al, 2015), Pecteilis (Kim et al, 2019), Epipactis (Hemrova et al, 2019), Himantoglossum (Szendrak, 1997;Dulic et al, 2019), Spathoglottis (Barrientos and Fang, 2019), Anoectochilus and Haemaria (Chou and Chang, 2004), Calopogon and Socoila (Kauth, 2005), Gastrodia (Godo et al, 2020), Calanthe (Bae and Kim, 2015), Spiranthes (Dulic et al, 2019), Ophrys, Barlia, and Platanthera (Szendrak, 1997;…”