| One-Flowered Panisea |
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| File size | 136934 |
| Original date | 7/30/18 7:58 AM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P900 |
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Botanical name: Panisea uniflora Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Coelogyne uniflora, Pleione uniflora, Coelogyne biflora
Synonyms: Coelogyne uniflora, Pleione uniflora, Coelogyne biflora
One-Flowered Panisea is a small size orchid growing on
trees. Pseudo-bulbs are 2-4 cm, coespitose, ovoid, mammillate, wrinkled
throughout. Leaves occur in pairs, narrowly oblong, tapering, slightly
narrowed at the base, stalkless, 4 to 6 cm long and 1-1.5 cm wide.
Flowers occur singly, on a very short flower-cluster-stalk from the
base of the pseudo-bulb. Flowers are 2 cm across, sepals and petals
greenish yellow, lip of the same shade on its tip and gradually
progressing to bright yellow on the base side, also with few spots
orange spots. Sepals are oblong-lanceshaped, somewhat pointed,
spreading, five veined. Petals are shorter than the sepals, somewhat
pointed, broadly lanceshaped, mid veined. Lip is oblong, with a very
short claw at the base, the side lobes erect and narrow with their
pointed apices pointing forward. One-Flowered Panisea is found in E.
Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan, NE India and Burma, at altitudes of
800-2400 m.
| Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar | Photographed in Reiek-tlang, Mizoram. |
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