| Large-Flowered Toothed-Lip Orchid |
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| File size | 318757 |
| Original date | 7/13/22 2:56 PM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1351 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 25.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7500 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Odontochilus grandiflorus Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Anoectochilus grandiflorus, Cystopus grandiflorus
Synonyms: Anoectochilus grandiflorus, Cystopus grandiflorus
Large-Flowered Toothed-Lip Orchid is a medium sized,
terrestrial orchid with a decumbent, hairless stem carrying elliptic to
broadly elliptic, oblique, many veined, stalked base leaves. The plant
blooms in the summer on an erect, sparsely velvet-hairy, 5-6.5 cm long,
laxly many flowered inflorescence with 2-3 ovate bracts and
ovate-lanceshaped, convolute floral bracts. Flowers are 1.4-2.4 cm
long, green; sepals and petals pale green, mottled white and tipped
with pink. Lip is white, mesochile teeth green, sac tinged yellow.
Sepals are almost similar, 0.6-0.8 cm long, hairless; dorsal sepal
ovate, concave; lateral sepals spreading, oblong, sickle shaped, nearly
pointed, fused at base. Petals are 0.6-0.8 cm long, sickle
shaped-inverted-lanceshaped, bluntly tapering. Lip is 1.6-1.9 cm long,
3-lobed; hypochile saccate, with 2 almost quadrate calluses, decurrent
on the ovary; mesochile long-pectinate; epichile 2- lobed, lobes
divergent, oblong, tips flat-erose. Large-Flowered Toothed-Lip Orchid
is found in E. Himalaya to NE India. Flowering: June-September.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in Sessa, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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