Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl. 1835 Photo by © Dowery Orchids
Inflorescence Drawing by © Edwards's botanical register vol. 20 plate 1730 and Botanicus Website
Common Name The Two Colored Acanthephippium
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in southern India and Sri Lanka as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with clustered, large, smooth, ovate, deeply sulcate with age pseduobulbs often flushed with purple and tapering above into a thin stem carrying 2 apical, folded, elliptic-lanceoalte, acute to acuminate, eventually deciduous, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a short, erect to 6 flowered inflorescence with prominent bracts and carrying cup-shaped, waxy, candy scented flowers.
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so use with caution.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide/photo hmm;
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