| Fan-Shaped Belly-Lip Orchid |
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| File size | 483052 |
| Original date | 12/24/19 9:27 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Gastrochilus flabelliformis Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Saccolabium flabelliforme
Synonyms: Saccolabium flabelliforme
Fan-Shaped Belly-Lip Orchid is an orchid with short
stem, found growing on trees. Leaves are about 3-5 x 1 cm, oblong or
linear-oblong or oblong-elliptic, leathery, tip unequally bilobed.
Flowers are borne in a raceme 1.5 cm long, corymb-like, few to many
flowered. Floral bracts are persistent, rough, ovate-oblong, pointed.
Flowers are about 5 mm across, stalked. Sepals are obovate-oblong,
fleshy, blunt, entire, hairless, light green with rose colored patches.
Petals are short, narrower, obovate-oblong, fleshy, blunt, entire,
hairless, light green with rose patches. Lip is minute, 3-lobed;
lateral lobes erect; midlobe white with a central fleshy yellow
triangle, deflexed, semi circular, outer edge minutely fringed. Column
is very short. Fan-Shaped Belly-Lip Orchid is found in Western Ghats.
Flowering: October-November.
| Identification credit: M. Sulaiman | Photographed in Kannur, Kerala. |
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