| Goodyera Zeuxine |
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| File size | 165953 |
| Original date | 9/28/19 12:37 PM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Zeuxine goodyeroides Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Monochilus galeatus, Monochilus goodyeroides
Synonyms: Monochilus galeatus, Monochilus goodyeroides
Goodyera Zeuxine is a miniature to small sized, cool
to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a stem with distant clasping
sheaths and carrying 2 to 4, oblong-ovate, pointed, shortly stalked
base leaves. Leaves are velvety green with a pure white mid-rib. The
plant blooms in the summer through earlier fall on a ridged, sparsely
velvet-hairy, 10-21 cm long, laxly 3 to 15 flowered inflorescence with
1-2, linear-lanceshaped bracts and ovate, tapering, equaling the ovary
in length floral bracts. Flowers are resupinate, white or pink, small;
ovary and flower-stalk spindle-shaped, 9-10 mm, hairless. Sepals are
hairless, 1-veined; dorsal sepal ovate, concave, about 5 × 2.5 mm, tip
pointed; lateral sepals spreading, narrowly oblong-lanceshaped, about
4.5 × 1-1.4 mm. Petals are white, sickle shaped, about 4.5 × 1.5 mm,
tip somewhat pointed; lip white, boat-shaped, about 4.5 mm. Column is
2-2.4 mm. Goodyera Zeuxine is found in the Himalayas, at altitudes of
1200-2500 m, in NE India, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, SE Yunnan, Bhutan.
Flowering: September-October
| Identification credit: N Arun Kumar | Photographed in Yuksom, West Sikkim. |
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