| Dusky Goodyera |
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| File size | 846748 |
| Original date | 9/15/21 1:17 PM |
| Resolution | 3839 x 3987 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 25.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Goodyera fusca Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Orchiodes fuscum, Hetaeria fusca, Epipactis fusca
Synonyms: Orchiodes fuscum, Hetaeria fusca, Epipactis fusca
Dusky Goodyera is a terrestrial orchid, 10-22 cm tall. Rhizome is short,
few noded. Stem is erect, 1-3 cm, 5-8-leaved. Leaves are in a rosette at
the base of stem, green, without white markings, ovate or ovate-elliptic,
1.5-3.5 × 0.8-2 cm, tip blunt or pointed, stalk-like base and tubular
sheath 0.8-1.8 cm. The stalk carrying the flower-spike is pale green,
4.5-9 cm, sparsely velvety, with 1-3 sterile bracts. Rachis is 3-9 cm,
densely many flowered, sometime one-sided. Floral bracts are ovate-
lanceshaped or lanceshaped, 6-10 mm, basal ones exceeding flowers,
velvety, tip long-pointed. Flowers are opening weakly, white flushed with
pale green, small. Dusky Goodyera is found in the Himalayas, from Nepal to
Bhutan, N. Burma, S.E. Tibet, at altitudes of 2600-4700 m.
Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: Sunit Singh, Krishan Lal | Photographed in Uttarakhand & Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
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