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 >
