Dear Members, This species is obviously Zeuxine longilabris and already reported (recently) from Orissa. With regards. Avishek
--- On Fri, 9/9/11, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:63266] Zeuxine sp. To: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> Cc: sahanipan...@gmail.com, navendu.p...@gmail.com, sweed...@gmail.com, santrom...@yahoo.com, sameernsu...@gmail.com, giby.kuriak...@gmail.com, avi...@yahoo.com, "prasad dash" <prasad.dash2...@gmail.com> Date: Friday, September 9, 2011, 4:38 PM 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)
