| Ketti Bulb-Leaf Orchid |
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Botanical name: Bulbophyllum kaitiense Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Phyllorkis kaitiensis, Cirrhopetalum nilgherrense
Synonyms: Phyllorkis kaitiensis, Cirrhopetalum nilgherrense
Ketti Bulb-Leaf Orchid is an orchid growing on trees or
rocks, pseudobulb ovoid, 2.5 x 2 cm, distantly placed. It is named for
a town called Ketti in the Nilgiri hills. Leaves are solitary, 5-7 x
1.5- 2 cm, oblong, narrowed at base, blunt at tip; leaf-stalk 2 cm
long. Flowering stem is very slender, elogated, up to 10 cm long.
Flowers are 4-7, yellow; bracts 7 x 2 mm, ovate, tapering, 5-veined.
Dorsal sepal is 3 x 6 mm, broadly ovate, pointed, 7-veined, hooded;
lateral sepals 2.2 cm x 7 mm, ovate-inverted-lanceshaped, pointed,
finely velvet-hairy towards base. Petals are 5 x 3.2 mm, ovate,
apiculate, slightly oblique, with reddish-brown streaks at base. Lip is
2 mm, ovate-oblong, blunt, curved. Ketti Bulb-Leaf Orchid is endemic to
Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith, P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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