Acriopsis indica Wight 1853

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Common Name or Meaning The Indian Acriopsis - In China He E Lan

Flower Size .4 to .5" [1 to 1.2 cm]

Found from Yunnan province of China, Assam India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam Malaysia, java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi and the Philippines in evergreen lowland and semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland and hill forests at elevations of sealevel [900] to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with crowded ovoid to subpyriform, sheathed pseudobulbs with 2 to 4 apical, linear, stalked leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring in nature on a many [30] flowered, to 18" [50 cm] long, paniculate inflorescence with triangular bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; The Orchids Of Malaya Holtum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 drawing delete see 1965; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections drawing fide; Opera Botanica #72 Orchid Genera in Thailand XI Cymbidiaeae Seidenfaden 1983 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Monographs Vol 1 De Vogel 1986; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 25 1520 - 1584 Brieger 1991 ; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1992; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A Feild Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman etal 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo not = A liliifolia; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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