Thank you Dr.Kumar for the information. Regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Wed, 9/29/10, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:48792] Waghchora again To: "Neil Soares" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 5:51 AM Nice timing. Actually the flowers are drying up But I imagine what you are calling fangs? The pectinate margins of the side lobes of the now brown coloured labellum may be? Labellum was normally white. Yes a part of pollinium is visible in the last picture, which seems to be dislodged from the pouch also called thecae which are visible as two arch on the top. The pollinum is stuck with the stigma. Regards Pankaj -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
