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Acriopsis is a small genus with six or seven species which are distributed from Sikkim and Assam in India across Southeast Asia to the Solomon Islands. They are common in lowland forests and on roadside trees throughout Southeast Asia. Plants are small with short, thick rhizomes, crowded ovoid pseudobulbs and 2 - 4 lanceolate, glabrous, duplicate leaves. Inflorescence is terminal, simple or branching, loosely many flowered. Lateral sepals are fused, petals narrow and outstretched, whereas the column and the lip are joined to form a slim, long tube (Fig. 4.1). This gives the flowers the impression of a swarm of insects in flight. Hence the name Acriopsis, derived from Greek acris ‘locust’ and opsis ‘resembling’ (Schultes, Pease 1963).
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Teoh, E.S. (2021). Acriopsis Reinw. ex Bl.. In: Orchid Species from Himalaya and Southeast Asia Vol. 1 (A - E). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58872-4_4
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