| Narrow-Leaf Belly-Lip Orchid |
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| File size | 244615 |
| Original date | 9/16/22 11:53 AM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1351 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 38.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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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: Gastrochilus linearifolius Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Narrow-Leaf Belly-Lip Orchid is a small to just medium
sized, tree-dwelling orchid with a hanging, branching, slender, stem
carrying distichous, well spaced, linear, sickle shaped, 3 needle-like
apical points, tapering, leaves. The plant blooms in the later summer
on a slender, flower-cluster-stalk 1-1.5 cm long, almost umbel-like, 3
to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate pointed floral bracts and
carrying small, widely opening flowers. Flowers are small, widely
opening. Dorsal sepal is nearly ovate, about 5 x 2.5 mm, tip blunt;
lateral sepals similar to dorsal sepal, slightly narrower. Petals are
oblong, smaller than sepals, tip blunt. Lip has an epichile and a
saccate hypochile; epichile nearly round, about 2.2 x 4 mm, above
finely papillate on central cushion, margin irregularly fringed.
Narrow-Leaf Belly-Lip Orchid is found in E. Himalaya to SE. Tibet, at
altitudes of 1600 m. Flowering: September.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in Khuppi, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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