A reply: "Dear Members, This species is obviously Zeuxine longilabris and already reported (recently) from Orissa. With regards. Avishek"
Thanks a lot, Avishek ji. On 9 September 2011 16:38, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> 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. > > "*Z.longilabris > *navendu" > > "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 > > "Would it be *Z.affinis? * > Regards, > Giby " > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: prasad dash <prasad.dash2...@gmail.com> > Date: 21 February 2011 16:53 > Subject: [efloraofindia:63266] Zeuxine sp. > To: Indiantreepix <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > > > 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: prasad.dash2...@gmail.com > ph. 09437444241 > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) > 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 1700 members & > 79,000 messages on 31/8/11) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of around 5500 species) > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) 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 1700 members & 79,000 messages on 31/8/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5500 species)
