| Free-Flowering Dendrobium |
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| File size | 301108 |
| Original date | 4/25/17 10:58 AM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1575 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, auto |
| Focal length | 18.0mm |
| 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: Mycaranthes floribunda Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Dendrobium floribundum, Eria paniculata, Mycaranthes paniculata
Synonyms: Dendrobium floribundum, Eria paniculata, Mycaranthes paniculata
Free-Flowering Dendrobium is a small to medium sized,
tree-dwelling or terrestrial orchid with caespitose, pendent, woody
stems enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying many all along the
stem, linear to linear-oblong, tapering, fleshy, nearly stalkless to
shortly stalked base leaves. The plant blooms in the winter through
spring on 2-4, at branch-ends, fasciculate to paniculate, wooly
velvet-hairy, 7.5-31 cm long, densely many flowered inflorescence with
acrid smelling flowers. Flowers are yellowish green, flower-stalk and
ovary 2-3 mm, densely grayish white cottony. Sepals are densely grayish
white cottony below; dorsal sepal ovate-elliptic, about 3 x 1 mm,
blunt; lateral sepals obliquely triangular, about 3 x 2.5 mm, blunt;
mentum about 2 mm. Petals are oblong, about 3 x 1.5 mm, hairless,
broadly blunt. Lip is fan-shaped in outline, base shortly clawed,
distally 3-lobed; lateral lobes nearly ovate-triangular; mid-lobe
kidney-shaped, about 1.5 x 2.5 mm. Free-Flowering Dendrobium is found
in Central Himalaya to NE India to China and Borneo, at altitudes of
660-2300 m. Flowering: April-June.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in Sessa, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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