Dear Dr. Kumar/ Mr. Garg, Enclosing some other link and request for your opinion . Also, could you please send me some link showing pink flower of S.spiralis.
Thank you. Saroj Kasaju http://orchidspecies.com/spirsinensis.htm http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Chinese%20Lady's-Tresses.html [image: FoI] <http://www.flowersofindia.net/> Chinese Lady's-Tresses [image: Foto info] [image: Chinese Lady's-Tresses] <http://www.flowersofindia.net/Scripts/rec_form.php> ative *Photo:* Dony Kokii*Common name:* Chinese Lady's-Tresses *Botanical name:* *Spiranthes sinensis* *Family:* *Orchidaceae* (Orchid family) *Synonyms:* Spiranthes lancea, Spiranthes pudica, Spiranthes australis ------------------------------ The genus name *Spiranthes* comes from the Greek words "speira" meaning spiral and "anthos" meaning flower, and refers to the spiral arrangement of flowers. Chinese Lady's-Tresses is an orchid found in the Himalayas and in many countries from Asia to Australia. It is a medium sized, cool to hot growing terrestrial orchid found on roadsides, grassy areas, open forests, at elevations of 100-2000 m. The plant has cylindrical, velvety roots, and a basal rosette of a few oblong-elliptic to linear-lanceshaped, pointed glossy dark green leaves. Flowers are borne on an erect, slender, up to 25 cm long many flowered spike. The spreading flowers twist around in a spiral with 2 to 3 distant, glandular-hairy sheaths and lanceshaped, long-pointed, glandular-hairy floral bracts. Flowers are rose to rose-purple, rarely whitish, fragrant. Sepals are lanceshaped, up to 5 mm long, the dorsal forming a tube with the narrower petals and lip. Flowering: May-September. ------------------------------ *Identification credit:* Gurcharan Singh, Pankaj Kumar Photographed in Shillong, Meghalaya. On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Respected Sir > Both of these are NOT sinensis. > They can be Spiranthes spiralis. > Thanks a lot for sharing. > Pankaj > > On Saturday, 10 September 2016 17:30:43 UTC+8, Saroj Kumar Kasaju wrote: >> >> Dear Mr. Garg, >> >> Sharing some pictures of *Spiranthes sinensis* (Pers.) Ames shot at >> Nagarkot Nepal on 9 September 2016 at 6700ft. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Saroj Kasaju >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
