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Acriopsis indica Wight 1853

Flower Closeup Photos by © Art Vogel

Another Plant Photo courtesy of David Kuehn

Plant Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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

Flower Size 3/8" [.8 cm]

Found from India to Thailand and Vietnam 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 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; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; 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; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; 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; A Feild Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; 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;

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