| Adorned Golden-Tongue Orchid |
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| File size | 102690 |
| Original date | 6/3/20 9:21 AM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1351 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, auto |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Chrysoglossum ornatum Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Chrysoglossum erraticum, Chrysoglossum maculatum, Chrysoglossum gibbsiae
Synonyms: Chrysoglossum erraticum, Chrysoglossum maculatum, Chrysoglossum gibbsiae
Adorned Golden-Tongue Orchid is a small to just medium
sized terrestrial orchid with conical to round, dark green pseudobulbs
enveloped basally by a sheath and carrying a single, apical,
elliptical, pleated, tapering leaf, abruptly narrowing below in to the
elongate stalked base. The plant blooms in the fall on a purple, 70 cm
long, several flowered raceme, with green, spreading,
lanceshaped-ovate, pointed, floral bracts. Flowers are green with
reddish brown spots, lip white or yellowish spotted with purple, column
white; flower-stalk and ovary up to 2 cm. Dorsal sepal is oblong, 12-14
x about 3 mm, 5-veined, almost blunt; lateral sepals sickle
shaped-oblong, 10-16 x about 3.5 mm, 5-veined. Petals are sickle
shaped, 12-14 x 4-5 mm; lip 8-10 mm, base with 2 small ears, 3-lobed
near middle. Adorned Golden-Tongue Orchid is found in Nepal to NE
India, China and SE Asia, at altitudes of 700-1700 m. Flowering:
April-June.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in Sessa, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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