Acriopsis ridleyi Hook.f. 1890

Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photos by © David Kuehn

Inflorescence Photo by © Amos Tan and the Asiatic Green Website

Common Name Ridley's Acriopsis [English Botanist Late 1800's to early 1900's]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in the Malaysia and Borneo in open forest on trees at elevations of 30 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elliptical, 4 to 7 internoded pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3[4] apical, narrowly linear, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, erect, simple to sparsely branched, several to many [13 to 46] flowered, 10" to 24" [25 to 60 cm] long inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; Orchid Monographs Vol 1 Minderhoud & De Vogel 1986; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;