| Ochre-Yellow Dendrobium |
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| File size | 620642 |
| Original date | 4/10/23 4:22 PM |
| Resolution | 3264 x 4928 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 16.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Dendrobium ochreatum Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Callista ochreata, Dendrobium cambridgeanum
Synonyms: Callista ochreata, Dendrobium cambridgeanum
Ochre-Yellow Dendrobium is a small to medium sized,
tree-dwelling, terrestrial or rock-dwelling orchid, and has short,
drooping, curved, swollen noded stems with red streaks and spots, and
carries 15 ovate-lanceshaped, thin, deciduous leaves. The plant blooms
in the winter, spring summer and fall on many very short, simultaneous
inflorescence that arise from every node of the newly formed stem and
has 1 to 3, fragrant, long-lived, velvet-hairy lipped flowers per
inflorescence. Flowers are fragrant, ochre-yellow to golden-yellow,
disk of lip blood-red or maroon, sepals oblong blunt, petals larger
quite entire, mentum stout, lip with a convolute claw and circular
concave blade, velvet-hairy, margins revolute, erose. Ochre-Yellow
Dendrobium is found in E. Nepal to NE India and Indo-China, at
altitudes of 1200-1600 m. In India the orchid is particularly notable
in Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram. Flowering: April-May.
| Identification credit: M. Sawmliana | Photographed in Hmuifang, Mizoram. |
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