| Furrowed-Lip Dendrobium |
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| File size | 158809 |
| Original date | 6/18/22 2:37 PM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1351 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7500 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Dendrobium sulcatum Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Callista sulcata, Dendrobium meghalayense
Synonyms: Callista sulcata, Dendrobium meghalayense
Furrowed-Lip Dendrobium is a small to medium sized,
tree-dwelling orchid that has flattened, 25 cm long, club-shaped
pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, ovate leaves. The plant blooms in the
late spring on a short, drooping inflorescence produced below the
apical leaf and is not much longer with very short lived, fringed
flowers. Flowers are thin, uniformly golden yellow, lip with red-purple
markings or stripes at base. Dorsal sepal oblong, about 25 x 9 mm, 5-
or 6-veined, tip somewhat pointed; lateral sepals nearly equal to
dorsal sepal. Petals are nearly obovate, about 24 x 11 mm, 5-veined,
base contracted into a short claw, margin entire, tip pointed. Lip is
nearly round to wedge-shaped, incurved, 1.8-2 x about 2 cm, upper
surface densely velvet-hairy near margin, base shortly clawed, margin
minutely erose to fringed with hairs-hairy, tip notched. Furrowed-Lip
Dendrobium is found in NE India, N Laos, Myanmar, N Thailand, China, at
altitudes of 700-800 m.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in Tippi, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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