| Curled-Lip Zeuxine |
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| File size | 988891 |
| Original date | 2/21/24 1:47 PM |
| Resolution | 2293 x 1721 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 22.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7500 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Zeuxine reflexa Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Curled-Lip Zeuxine is a small sized, terrestrial
orchid with a fleshy stem, carrying narrowly-ovate, pointed, shortly
stalked base leaves, which wither at blooming. The plant blooms in the
spring on an erect, laxly to somewhat densely to 15 flowered
inflorescence with reddish brown, ovate-lanceshaped, margin fringed
with hairs, tapering almost as long as the ovary floral bracts and
carrying inverted flowers. Flowers are up to 5 mm long; sepals green,
petals white, lip yellow, sac white; flower-stalk and ovary stalkless,
about 6 mm long. Sepals are similar, ovar-lanceshaped, concave, 4.5-5
mm long. Petals lanceshaped, blunt, 4 mm long. Lip exceeding the
sepals, sac-like at base, with a single blader callus on each side
within, 6-7 x 2-2.5 mm long. Curled-Lip Zeuxine is found in Western
Ghats, Himalaya, Thailand to China, at altitudes of 1000-1300 m.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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