Acriopsis indica

Acriopsis indica

Country: India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Java, Borneo, Timor and the Philippines

Contributor/s: Milan Vagner

Acriopsis indica has pseudobulbs which are close together, ovoid, ridged, 2.5 - 5 cm long, bearing 2 or 3 leaves near the top. Leaves thin, to 20 by 1.2 cm, usually smaller, apex rounded, gradually narrowed to base, but leaves to 6 mm wide. Inflorescence to 30 cm long, including scape of 12 cm. Flowers a little smaller and less strongly spotted. Dorsal sepal 5 mm long. Lip with simple broadly ovate blade, its edges a little wavy, a little shorter than the joined lateral sepals. Column stelids slender, terete.

Distributed in India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Java, Borneo, Timor and the Philippines; in Malaya found on Bukit Bendera, Pinang, in Kedah, on Bukit Fraser and at Keratong, Pahang, and three localites in Kelantan.