| Swaminathan's Oberonia |
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| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 79.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 600D |
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Botanical name: Oberonia swaminathanii Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Swaminathan's Oberonia is an stemless orchid, found
drooping from tree branches. It is named for M. S. Swaminathan,
Chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
Leaves are 4-6, pale green, jointed at base, 15-16 x 1.6-1.8 cm,
distichous, oblong-ensiform, pointed or tapering at tip. Flowering stem
is shorter than the larger leaf, up to 14 cm long, flattened, adnate to
the reduced uppermost leaf. Flowers are borne in a many-flowered spike,
about 13 cm long, with a distinct sterile about 1 cm long tip, slightly
decurved; bracts slightly larger than the ovary and flower-stalk, about
2.0-1.5 mm, elliptic-oblong, deeply rounded toothed, somewhat
pointed-rounded at tip, gland-dotted. Flowers are tiny, brick-red,
spirally arranged, shortly stalked or nearly stalkless, about 4.2x1.4
mm, about 2 mm across. Capsules are short-stalked, crowned by the
marcescent flower. Swaminathan's Oberonia is endemic to Southern
Western Ghats. Flowering: August-November.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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