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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Claire Cockcroft on October 27, 2017, 11:57:47 PM

Title: Is this an orchid or a bulb? Another Sikkim mystery
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on October 27, 2017, 11:57:47 PM

I go back and forth, trying to identify a plant that was growing with Cypripedium himalaicum, Cypripedium elegans, a Herminium, and another unknown orchid.  The flowers weren't open.
Yabuk camp, 3990m, Sikkim
...Claire
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Title: Re: Is this an orchid or a bulb? Another Sikkim mystery
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on October 28, 2017, 01:18:29 AM

I found another picture, with the flowers out farther.
...Claire

Title: Re: Is this an orchid or a bulb? Another Sikkim mystery
Post by: Oron Peri on October 28, 2017, 05:51:51 AM

Looks like Gymnadenia to me

Title: Re: Is this an orchid or a bulb? Another Sikkim mystery
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on October 28, 2017, 06:30:13 PM

Thank you, Oron.  Gymnadenia orchidis was my first thought, but it wasn't listed in the reference books on Northern Sikkim that I consulted.  Looking further, I see it is quite possible to find it where I trekked.
...Claire