| Pinkish-White Dendrobium |
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| File size | 489886 |
| Original date | 3/5/16 3:36 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/800s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A2200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Dendrobium wightii Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Callista graminifolia
Synonyms: Callista graminifolia
Pinkish-White Dendrobium is an orchid growing on wet
rocks, stem slender, round, 15-20 cm tall. Leaves are up to 6.7 x 0.5
cm, linear, pointed, membranous. Flowers are pinkish-white, 4-5, in
6-10 cm long, slender flexuous at branch-ends racemes; dorsal sepal
oblong-lanceshaped, pointed, 3-veined; lateral sepals 10 x 3 mm,
slightly obliquely oblong-lanceshaped, pointed, 3-veined; petals 8 x 2
mm, inverted-lanceshaped, pointed, margins serrulate or erose,
3-veined; lip 11 x 3-6 mm, 3-lobed; lateral lobes 2 x 1 mm, obliquely
ovate-oblong, blunt; midlobe 6 x 6 mm, round, margins rounded toothed,
wavy; base of the lip united with the column foot and lateral sepals
forming a cylindric spur, 3 x 1 mm, bluntly bifid at tip. Pinkish-White
Dendrobium is found in India and Sri Lanka. Flowering:
September-October.
| Identification credit: Regy Yohannan | Photographed in Kerala. |
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