| Nilgiri Eria |
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| Original date | 8/22/17 12:28 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
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| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Eria pauciflora Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Pinalia nilgherensis
Synonyms: Pinalia nilgherensis
Nilgiri Eria is an orchid from the Nilgiri hills,
found growing on trees, with translucent and delicate white flowers.
Stem is club-shaped, 8-10 cm tall. Leaves are two, 4-6 cm long, 1 cm
broad, oblong-lanceshaped, pointed. Flowers are white, in 1.5-2 cm
long, 2-flowered raceme at the top. Bracts are 6 x 3 mm,
oblong-lanceshaped, pointed, 3-veined; dorsal sepal 7.5 x 2.8 mm,
obovate-oblong, pointed, 3-veined; lateral sepals 10 x 5.5-7 mm,
obliquely ovate, pointed. Petals are 8.5 x 2 mm, oblong-lanceshaped,
nearly pointed-blunt, 3-veined; lip 6.5 x 3.6 mm, quadrate, notched at
tip; disc with fleshy bilobed calli; midlobe with 3 fleshy ridges.
Nilgiri Eria is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Naduvattam, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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