| Barnes Habenaria |
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| File size | 126686 |
| Original date | 8/22/17 12:20 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Habenaria barnesii Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Barnes Habenaria is a small terrestrial orchid with
leaves up to 2.5 x 0.5 cm, oblong-lanceshaped, pointed. Flowers are
borne in one-sided spikes. Bracts are 2.5 x 1 cm, hoodlike, leaf-like,
almost concealing flowers. Flowers are greenish-yellow, about 2 cm
across, somewhat resembling a cross. Dorsal sepal is 3.5 x 2 mm, ovate,
blunt, 5-veined; lateral sepals 5 x 2.5 mm, sickle-shapedly
ovate-lanceshaped, blunt, 5-veined. Petals are 4 x 1.5 mm,
sickle-shapedly linear-lanceshaped, blunt, 2-veined; lip 1.0 x 1.5 cm,
3-lobed; lateral lobes linear; midlobe oblong, blunt; spur 1.5 cm long,
cylindric, blunt, shorter than ovary. Barnes Habenaria is endemic to
Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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