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Old 15-03-2007, 06:51 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.orchids
Diana Kulaga Diana Kulaga is offline
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Default The last one! Cryptostylis leptochila

Neat flower, Reiner!

Diana

"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Thanks Reiner! Very cool photo of a very cool orchid, as usual!

K
"AusDigi" wrote in message
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Its a bit different to your typical orchid. The flower is upside-down and
dominated by the labellum (which takes up most of my photo). The sepals
and
petals are relatively insignificant, green and thin. The dorsal sepal is
the
green thing extending from the centre of the flower out the bottom of the
photo (being an upside-down flower, calling that a dorsal sepal is
somewhat
of a misnomer).

"K Barrett" wrote in message
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OK, so where are the flower parts on this one? The column, sepals/petals

are
at the forked tip of the colored spotted tongue? so the tongue is some

sort
of a bract?