| White Pinalia |
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| File size | 191351 |
| Original date | 5/21/06 6:25 PM |
| Resolution | 1300 x 975 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 20.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/120s |
| Aperture | 5.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX S6 |
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Botanical name: Pinalia leucantha Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Octomeria alba, Eria alba
Synonyms: Octomeria alba, Eria alba
White Pinalia is a warm to cold growing epiphytic orchid. Pseudobulbs are not
elongating. Leaves are 3-5, narrow, strongly nerved. Bracts are
lanceshaped , sepals are 1.2-1.9 cm long, ovate-lanceshaped, 3-5 nerved
hairless. Petals are linear-oblong 3-nerved, lip oblong broadly clawed,
side lobes about the middle pointing forward, blunt, midlobe circular,
disk with usually 2 thick obtuse ridges between the side lobes and a
slender mesial one on the rough midlobe , column short. White Pinalia is
found in western Himalayas, eastern Himalayas and Nepal at elevations of
1400-2000 m.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Mandi Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
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