| Small Bearded Dendrobium |
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| File size | 241636 |
| Original date | 2/18/12 9:25 AM |
| Resolution | 1400 x 1050 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/800s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Dendrobium barbatulum Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Dendrobium barbatulum Wight, Callista barbatula
Synonyms: Dendrobium barbatulum Wight, Callista barbatula
Small Bearded Dendrobium is a small to medium sized orchid growing on
bushes and small trees. Stem us 5-10 cm long, round, leafless when flowering. Flowers are creamy white to bluish-pink, in about 5.8 cm long at branch-ends 5-6-flowered racemes; flower-stalk 1.2 cm long; dorsal sepal 12.5 x 4.5 mm, lanceshaped, blunt, 5-veined; lateral sepals 12.5 x 8 mm, ovate-lanceshaped, pointed, 5-veined; petals 13.5 x 9 mm, obovate, blunt, 7-veined; lip 13 x 11 mm, 3-lobed, side lobes ovate, blunt, 5 x 3 mm, midlobe 8 x 7.5 mm, obovate, flat at tip, disc with an oblong callus and yellow hairs. Small Bearded Dendrobium is found in Peninsular India.
Flowering: December-January.
| Identification credit: Navendu Pagé | Photographed in Maharashtra. |
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