| Thin Trichoglottis |
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| File size | 553569 |
| Original date | 10/14/15 10:28 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 13.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 9.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX S9600 |
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Botanical name: Trichoglottis tenera Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Trichoglottis tenera, Oeceoclades tenera
Synonyms: Trichoglottis tenera, Oeceoclades tenera
Thin Trichoglottis is an orchid growing on trees,
up to 60 cm high, stem round, woody, climbing. Leaves are 3 x 1-1.5 cm,
elliptic-oblong, blunt. Flowers are yellow, in few-flowered, 15-20 cm
long, stout raceme; dorsal sepal elliptic, blunt, 5-veined; lateral
sepals inverted-lanceshaped, sickle shaped, blunt, 3-veined. Petals are
smaller than sepals, oblong, blunt, 5-veined; lip adnate to the base of
column, 7 x 7.5 mm, 3-lobed; lateral lobes oblong, lanceshaped, blunt;
midlobe ovate, blunt, 3-lobuled, rounded; spur 3 x 1 mm, cylindrical;
column and foot very short; pollinia 2. Thin Trichoglottis is found in
South India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: April-May.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in forest department orchidarium, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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