Common name: Insect-Bearing Pelatanthera
Botanical name: Pelatantheria insectifera Family: Orchidaceae (orchid family)
Insect-Bearing Pelatanthera is a beautiful orchid bearing clusters of tiny
greenish flowers, with red stripes on the sepals and petals
and white and fuchsia lips. Found in India, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam
occuring in broadleaf, evergreen, lowland forests on limestone rocks and
bushes as a hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte or lithophyte-terrestrial
at elevations of 550 to 1000 meters where it blooms in the winter on an
axillary, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence.
| Photographed in Jharkhand |
Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar
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