Acriopsis indica Wight 1853

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Common Name or Meaning The Indian Acriopsis

Flower Size 3/8" [.8 cm]

Found from India to Thailand and Vietnam in evergreen lowland and semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 1500 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 of many [30] flowered, to 12" [30 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; The Orchids Of Malaya Holtum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Monographs Vol 1 De Vogel 1986; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden 7 Wood 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Feild Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Minaiature Orchids McQueen 1992; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003