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| Photo: Rahul Prabhu Khanolkar
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Common name: Fox Brush Orchid, Cat's-tail Orchid • Marathi: Thipke irid amri • Kannada: Drupadi Pushpa
Botanical name: Aerides maculosum Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Fox Brush Orchid is a dwarf orchid species
with crystalline pink, spotted magenta, fragrant flowers to 2cm. The spikes
are arching to pendulous, to about 25cm long with many flowers.
They occur mainly in Asia : the Indian subcontinent, Nepal, Southern China, SE
Asia, the Philippines, New Guinea.
They form pendulous racemes with many fragrant, long-lasting, waxy flowers, in
white, (rarely) yellow, purple or pink colors, with a forward facing spur,
growing on stout many-leaved stems from the leaf axils.
The leaves grow distichously (in two vertical rows) The leaf margins are
bilobed, while the apex is emarginate.
Identification credit: Rahul Prabhu Khanolkar
| Photographed in Maharashtra. |
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