| Small Fan Velvet Orchid |
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| File size | 399432 |
| Original date | 1/8/15 10:25 AM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 16.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Cheirostylis flabellata Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Goodyera flabellata, Monochilus flabellatus
Synonyms: Goodyera flabellata, Monochilus flabellatus
Small Fan Velvet Orchid is a slender ground orchid,
5-10 cm tall. Leaves are 1-2.5 x 0.5-1 cm, ovate, tapering at tip;
leaf-stalk 1-1.5 cm long, sheathing on stem. Flowers are borne in
branch-end racemes, 5-6 cm high, with 2-3 subulate bracts on axis;
flowers at top only. Floral bracts are minute, subulate. Flower-stalk
is twisted and flowers resupinate. Sepals are fused to a tube, 0.25-0.3
cm long, petals free. Lip is 0.5-0.6 cm long; lateral lobes saccate;
mid-lobe 2-fid, 3-sect on margins. Capsules are nearly spherical,
0.45-0.5 cm across. Small Fan Velvet Orchid is found in South India, Sri
Lanka, and Eastern Himalayas, particularly in Bhutan and Myanmar.
Flowering: February-May.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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