Maharashtra Dipcadi is a plant with a basal rosette of
linear leaves. Leaves are 4-5, leathery, 15-30 cm long, up to 7 mm broad,
linear, pleated, grass-green.
It is seen most spectacularly on the Kaas plateau. Flowers are borne on a
15-30 cm tall, leafless flowering-stem. Flowers
are 1-1.5 cm. Tepals are unequal. Flower stalks are stout. Filaments
are not adnate wholly to flower tube. Bracts are much longer than
flower-stalks. Bracts are long pointed, scarious( Not coriaceous).
Maharashtra Dipcadi is endemic to Maharashtra.
Identification credit: Satish Phadke
Photographed at Kaas plateau, Maharashtra.
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