| Ocher Yellow Coelogyne |
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| File size | 162804 |
| Original date | 12/30/18 9:52 AM |
| Resolution | 880 x 660 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Coelogyne fuscescens Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Ocher Yellow Coelogyne is a medium to large sized creeping epiphytic
orchid with erect, clustered, cylindric-spindle-shaped, deeply grooved
with age pseudobulbs. Each pseudobulb carries 2 inverted-lance-shaped to
oblong-elliptic, acute, 6 nerved leaves at the top. The leaves gradually
narrow at the base in to a short stalk. Flowers are borne in a raceme,
from the base of pseudobulb, sheathed at base, shorter than the leaves.
Racemes are dropping, few-flowered. Flowers are pale-brown or ocher-
yellow, large, about 4 cm across. Bracts are ovate, acute, about 2.5 cm
long. Sepals are lance-shaped, concave, 4 cm long. Petals are as long as
sepals, linear, pointed, 3 nerved. Lip is pale brown with dark brown
spots, about 3.5 cm long, 3-lobed. Sidelobes are small, recurved, blunt;
midlobe broadly ovate, pointed. Ocher Yellow Coelogyne is found in the
mountain forests of NE India, at altitudes of 600-2100 m.
Flowering: October-December.
| Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar, Hussain Barbhuiya | Photographed in Assam & Mizoram. |
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