| Common Snout Orchid |
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| File size | 571617 |
| Original date | 6/25/22 10:37 AM |
| Resolution | 3648 x 2736 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 3.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Dienia ophrydis Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Malaxis ophrydis, Malaxis latifolia
Synonyms: Malaxis ophrydis, Malaxis latifolia
Common Snout Orchid is a terrestrial orchid, 25-40
cm tall, with stem pseudobulbous. Leaves are 15-20 x 6-8 cm, broadly
ovate-lanceshaped, tapering at tip, narrowed at base to a sheathing
leaf-stalk, plicate. Flowers are borne at branch-ends, in
dense-flowered stout spikes, flowering on upper portion.
Flower-cluster-stalk is 12-15 cm high, floral bracts minute. Flowers
are about 0.3 cm across. Sepals and petals nearly equal, 0.1-0.15 cm
long, deflexed. Lip is obscurely 3-lobbed, stalkless, embracing column.
Flower-stalk and ovary is about 0.1 cm long. Common Snout Orchid is
found in Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands),
Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, Vietnam; Australia, below altitudes of 2000 m.
Flowering: May-August.
| Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar, Ravee Bhat | Photographed in Manipur & Chikamagalur, Karnataka. |
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