Another Great Set Prasad Ji. Showing all Features. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am sure Pankaj ji will be the happiest person after seeing this post. > Great Job done Prasad ji. Good to see your dedication. > > Photographs are no doubt beautiful. > Regards > Prashant > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Prasad Dash <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear members before writing about the species i must thank my friend and >> Dr. orchid of India Pankaj for his motivation which influenced me to see >> this rarest orchid (Especially for Odisha) in wild. last year the same >> plant was posted in the group and cud not be identified due to lack of >> close up of flowers. Pankaj simply said without flower no id for orchid. I >> remembered those lines and waited for one year and went to the same place >> during the flowering period. Last year i sighted a very large patch of this >> orchid growing in a semi-evergreen forest. Strangly when i visited the same >> place i only found 8 trees with this gorgeous orchid due to habitat loss >> (Deforestation). >> >> Name: pomatocalpa decipens >> Place of collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh, Odisha >> habit: Epiphyte >> habitat: Semi-evergreen forest >> Distribution in Odisha: Similipal and Ranpur (New record for this place) >> Ecology: Growing in Trees like Cleistanthus patulus, Polyalthia >> cerassoides and Memycelon sp. >> >> Regards >> >> P............ >> >> -- >> Prasad Kumar Dash >> Ecologist, Odisha, India >> email: [email protected] >> ph. 09437444241 >> > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
