TABLE 1.

The diversity of culturable endophytic fungi isolated from the health tissues of Nervilia fordii.

Index of diversity	Tissues			Total isolates
	Leaves	Roots	Corms
No. of total fungal isolates	103	39	42	184
Species richness (S)	48	30	22	85
Camargo’s index (1/S)	0.021	0.033	0.045	0.012
Simpson’s index (D)	0.047	0.047	0.074	0.026
Simpson’s index of diversity (1−D)	0.953	0.953	0.926	0.974
Shannon index of diversity (H′)	3.485	3.247	2.846	4.248