| Two-Tail Vanda |
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| File size | 409291 |
| Original date | 6/9/22 2:25 PM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1351 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 16.0 |
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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: Diploprora championii Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Cottonia championii, Stauropsis championii, Vanda bicaudata
Synonyms: Cottonia championii, Stauropsis championii, Vanda bicaudata
Two-Tail Vanda is a miniature sized,
tree-dwelling or rock-dwelling orchid with a hanging growing, elongate,
branching, leafy stem carrying many, elliptical, pointed, basally
clasping, twisted to all face same way leaves. It is named for 19th
century English botanist John George Champion, who studied the flora of
East Asia. The plant blooms in the spring on an in leaf-axils, 4 to 5
cm long, successively 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant
flowers. Flowers are fragrant, pale yellow, with white-rosy lip, about
1 cm in diam., slightly fleshy; flower-stalk and ovary about 8 mm.
Sepals are oblong or elliptic, about 9 x 4 mm, dorsally carinate, tip
blunt. Petals are linear-oblong, about 8 x 2 mm, pointed. Lip is
sigmoidally curved, 5-8 x 3-4 mm, adnate to base and sides of column;
hypochile erect, boat-shaped, about 5 x 4 mm, edges recurved. The lip
ends in a tail like structure which is forked at the tip.
Two-Tail Vanda is found in India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, S and SE
Yunnan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, at altitudes of
200-1500 m.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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