| Narrow-Stem Habenaria |
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| File size | 554704 |
| Original date | 6/20/22 1:36 PM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1351 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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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: Platanthera leptocaulon Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Habenaria leptocaulon, Platanthera stenophylla
Synonyms: Habenaria leptocaulon, Platanthera stenophylla
Narrow-Stem Habenaria is a small to medium sized,
terrestrial orchid with a slender, hairless, bracteate above stem with
2-3, basal, overlapping, lanceshaped, pointed to tapering sheaths and
carrying a single, linear-oblong, pointed, long clasping base leaf. The
plant blooms in the summer on an erect, at branch-ends, hairless, 3.5-7
cm long, laxly 3-8 flowered inflorescence with lanceshaped, pointed to
tapering floral bracts. Flowers are yellowish green, flower-stalk and
ovary cylindric-spindle-shaped, about 1 cm. Dorsal sepal is erect and
forming a hood with petals, almost lanceshaped, about 6 x 2-2.2 mm,
3-veined, tip blunt; lateral sepals reflexed, lanceshaped, slightly
oblique, about 6 x 2-2.1 mm, 3-veined, tip blunt. Petals are
triangular-lanceshaped, oblique, about 6 x 2 mm, fleshy, 1-veined, tip
pointed; lip strapshaped-lanceshaped, 5.5-8 x 1-1.3 mm, thickened,
entire, tip blunt; spur drooping, cylindric, 12-20 mm, usually much
longer than ovary, slender. Narrow-Stem Habenaria is found in Central
Nepal to East Himalaya, China.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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