| Khasi Bulb-Leaf Orchid |
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| File size | 730437 |
| Original date | 11/28/19 9:46 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 25.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Bulbophyllum khasyanum Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Bulbophyllum gibsonii, Bulbophyllum cylindraceum var. khasyanum
Synonyms: Bulbophyllum gibsonii, Bulbophyllum cylindraceum var. khasyanum
Khasi Bulb-Leaf Orchid is a small to medium sized
orchid, cold growing on trees and rocks, with a creeping rhizome. The
plant produces an attenuate pseudobulb carrying a single, leathery,
erect, oblong-lanceolate blunt, single veined leaf, which is gradually
narrowing below into the channeled above, terete below, stalked. The
plant blooms in the fall and early winter on a basal, erect, slender,
nearly cylindric, densely many flowered inflorescence, 15-31 cm long,
with distant lanceshaped adpressed sheaths and variable,
ovate-lanceshaped, pointed to tapering, concave floral bracts and
carrying overlapping flowers. Flowers are dark purple, lip even darker.
Dorsal sepal ovate, about 5 × 2 mm; lateral sepals obliquely ovate, ca.
5 × 3 mm. Khasi Bulb-Leaf Orchid is found in East Himalayas, Bhutan,
NE India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and China, at altitudes of
1650-2330 m. Flowering: November.
| Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar | Photographed in Kalimpong, West Bengal. |
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