| Mysore Eria |
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| File size | 438554 |
| Original date | 8/2/15 1:08 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Pinalia mysorensis Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Eria mysorensis
Synonyms: Eria mysorensis
Mysore Eria is an orchid found growing on trees,
with pseudobulbs ovoid, swollen, compressed, reddish-brown. Leaves are
2 to many at the tip of pseudobulbs, oblong-lanceshaped, mucronate, up
to 15 x 3 cm. Flowers arise from between the leaves. Flowers are
several in racemes, straw-coloured, fragrant, 1.2 cm long, flowering
stem to 8 cm long, velvet-hairy. Sepals are lanceshaped, 1 x 0.3 cm,
creamy yellow; dorsal sepals and petals similar, free; lateral sepals
fused with the foot of column forming a short mentum. Petals are
linear-lanceshaped, narrower than the sepals. Lip shortly clawed,
subheart-shaped at base, subpandurate, pointed, 3-ridged, 8 mm long,
orange-yellow with purple at base. Column free with elongated foot.
Pollinia 8, in 2 groups. Mysore Eria is endemic to Western Ghats.
Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: Ravee Bhat, Srikanth P. | Photographed in Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka & Anamalai Hills, Tamil Nadu. |
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