Lets find out??? :) I am sure it would be there, we just need to search at the right place. Pankaj
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > The only orchid that was seen growing wild in fields in Delhi Zeuxine > strateumatica , not seen for last 30 years. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot for sharing this beautiful pic. >> Yes this is Zeuxine longilabris, very widely distributed in India. >> Recently happened to see this at Trivandrum but in garden in flowering >> and then from Ms. Smita also. >> Apart from India, it is also found in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, >> Myanmar and Thailand. This is also the right time to search in >> Maharastra. Its there in wild. >> I will request members who share orchid pics, PLEASE DONT FORGET TO >> TAKE PICTURES OF LEAVES. >> In the current pic also if you notice, in top bud has no labellum and >> it gives an indication of another (more than one) species. >> Pankaj >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Since you know about the species. May I request you to further elaborate >> > about where it is found? Where did you find? Is it a garden/cultivated >> > variety and commonness of the species and any other details you have >> > about >> > it. All this because this appears to be the first posting of this >> > species on >> > the group. We have earlier seen Zeuxine strateumatica another species >> > from >> > the same genus. >> > Dr Phadke >> > >> > On 17 February 2011 10:02, manudev madhavan <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> attaching the image of Zeuxine longilabris (Lindl.) Benth. ex Hook.f. >> >> please validate >> >> regards >> >> -- >> >> Manudev K Madhavan >> >> Junior Research Fellow >> >> Systematic & Floristic Lab, >> >> Department of Botany, >> >> Centre for Postgraduate Studies & Research >> >> St. Joseph's College, Devagiri >> >> Kozhikode- 673 008 >> >> Mob: 9496470738 >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> *********************************************** >> "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 > > > > -- *********************************************** "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
