| Malabar Daffodil Orchid |
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Botanical name: Ipsea malabarica Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Pachystoma malabaricum
Synonyms: Pachystoma malabaricum
Malabar Daffodil Orchid is a rare and beautiful
ground orchid forming disc-shaped tubors. It was believed to be
extinct, but was rediscovered in 1982 from Silent Valley. Leaves appear
after flowers, two, 8-10 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, ribbon like, tapering
at tip, narrowed into a leaf-stalk like portion below, plicate.
Flowering stem is 2-6 flowered, 10-15 cm long; bracts 1-2 on the
flower-cluster-stalk and below each flower, 0.8-1.2 cm long, 0.2 cm
wide. Flowers are bright yellow, opening partially only. Ovary with
flower-stalk is 1-1.5 cm long. Sepals and petals are 1-1.5 cm long. Lip
is 3-lobed, pollinia 8. Malabar Daffodil Orchid is endemic to Southern
Western Ghats. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Silent Valley, Kerala. |
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