| Arrow-Lip Dendrobium |
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| Original date | 7/20/10 7:22 AM |
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| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 22.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Dendrobium hesperis Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Flickingeria hesperis
Synonyms: Flickingeria hesperis
Arrow-Lip Dendrobium is a tree-dwelling orchid 1-2 ft
tall. Leaves are up to 11 cm long, stalkless. They are minutely
bilobulate, mid-vein terminating in a short flat-blunt mucro in sinus.
Flowers are small, white, occuring singly in leaf axil or at leaf base.
Sepals are cream-colored with dark brown spots on the outside,
triangular, pointed. Petals are as long as the dorsal sepals, white
linear-lanceshaped. Lip is 3-lobed, cream-colored, margins almost
entire. Lower part of the lip has large side lobes, is triangular in
out line, like arrow-head, without any color spots, keels 3, yellow.
Arrow-Lip Dendrobium is known only from three disjoint regions,
Uttarakhand, Manipur and Laos. Flowering: June-July (Uttarakhand)
September (Manipur).
| Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar | Photographed in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand. |
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