Dear Navendu You are actually missing something here. There are two more species found in Orissa, namely, Zeuxine nervosa and Zeuxine affinis along with Z. strateumatica, lindleyana, gracilis. Then grandis should also be there though not reported till now. Pankaj
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:54 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > A reply: > "Z.longilabris > navendu" > > On 11 June 2011 14:32, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> “your plant does look like longilabris but there is a very >> >> peculiar difference. Usually in Z. longilabris the lip tip is not so >> rounded as it is in your plant, it is very much trapezoidal in shape >> with crenulate or dentate. I will recheck once I am back to Doon. >> Zeuxine are identfied very much on the basis of the lip or glands >> inside the spur which is not visible in the pic. >> Please find my pic attached.” from Pankaj ji. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: prasad dash <[email protected]> >> Date: 21 February 2011 16:53 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:63266] Zeuxine sp. >> To: Indiantreepix <[email protected]> >> >> >> Dear all this orchid was collected from Malkangiri near Chitrakonda. >> Please validate the ID. >> >> Name of the species: Zeuxine longilabris (Lindl.) Benth. ex. J.D. Hook >> Area of collection:Chitrakonda, malkangiri, Orissa >> Habitat: Under moist canopy with leaf litters >> Altitude:500m above msl >> >> Regards >> >> Prasad >> >> -- >> Prasad Kumar Dash >> Ecologist, Orissa, India >> email: [email protected] >> ph. 09437444241 >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them >> for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1600 members & >> 70,000 messages on 30/5/11) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of >> around 5000 species) > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them > for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1600 members & > 70,000 messages on 30/5/11) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of > around 5000 species) > -- *********************************************** "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
