| White Cinnamon Orchid |
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| File size | 560685 |
| Original date | 9/17/11 2:14 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return not detected, auto |
| Focal length | 46.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 5.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Corymborkis veratrifolia Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Corymborkis assamica, Corymborkis longiflora
Synonyms: Corymborkis assamica, Corymborkis longiflora
White Cinnamon Orchid is a terrestrial orchid and
monopodial herb. Leaves are 25-40 x 4-8 cm, plaited,
elliptic-lanceshaped, tip with a tail-tapering, stalkless. White
flowers are borne in panicles in leaf-axils, ip to 12 cm, bracts
ovate-lanceshaped, up to 1 cm. Flowers are about 2.5 cm across, white,
sepals and petals about 1.5-2 cm, linear-lanceshaped, lip clawed,
column elongate, round, rostellum bifid, foot absent, pollinia 2,
club-shaped. White Cinnamon Orchid is found in Eastern Himalayas, at
altitudes of 700-1000 m, in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Sikkim; Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
Vietnam, and probably also Southern Western Ghats. Flowering:
June-July.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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