Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl.

[Siva Prasad]

Location- Sultan Bathery, Wayanad, Kerala

Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Wild, in patches of 30 to 40 plants, Close to a stream with dense vegetation

Plant Habit- Herb

Height/Length-  2 ft.

Altitude : 3200 ft.

Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl.

Jug flower Orchid

Photographed close to a stream with dense vegetation.  plants. Photographed 25 years ago.

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Shivaprakash ji, for this wonderful addition. 

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[Nidhan Singh]

Wonderful and interesting plant, thanks Prasad Ji..

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Forwarding for nomenclature clarification

Distributed as  Acanthephippium bicolor 

It is now going to be busy period of few days for Pankaj our Orchid expert, answering questions from a person layman on orchids

Our database lists two very similar genera Acanthephippium (two species A. bicolor and A. gougahensis) and Acanthophippium (A. striatum) which we generally consider as orthographic variants, and generally not allowed as distinct taxa. Luckily for me both POWO and Catalogue of life do not list former, and all our species are listed under latter. World Flora Online (and its older version TPL) list both but all our species under former, latter only with single ambiguous name Acanthophippium curtisii. As such I fail to understand two generic entries.

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On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 9:34:31 AM UTC+5:30 Nidhan Singh wrote:

Wonderful and interesting plant, thanks Prasad Ji..

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 8:55 PM, J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, Shivaprakash ji, for this wonderful addition. 

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From: "Siva Prasad" <siva...@gmail.com>
Date: 26-Feb-2018 7:19 PM
Subject: [efloraofindia:289310] Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl.
To: "efloraofindia" <indian...@googlegroups.com>
Cc:

Location- Sultan Bathery, Wayanad, Kerala

Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Wild, in patches of 30 to 40 plants, Close to a stream with dense vegetation

Plant Habit- Herb

Height/Length-  2 ft.

Altitude : 3200 ft.

Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl.

Jug flower Orchid

Photographed close to a stream with dense vegetation.  plants. Photographed 25 years ago.

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[Gurcharan Singh]

  Forwarding for nomenclature clarification

Distributed as  Acanthephippium bicolor 

It is now going to be busy period of few days for Pankaj our Orchid expert, answering questions from a person layman on orchids

Our database lists two very similar genera Acanthephippium (two species A. bicolor and A. gougahensis) and Acanthophippium (A. striatum) which we generally consider as orthographic variants, and generally not allowed as distinct taxa. Luckily for me both POWO and Catalogue of life do not list former, and all our species are listed under latter. World Flora Online (and its older version TPL) list both but all our species under former, latter only with single ambiguous name Acanthophippium curtisii. As such I fail to understand two generic entries.

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From: P.S.Sivaprasad <siva...@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, February 26, 2018 at 7:19:51 PM UTC+5:30
Subject: Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl.
To: efloraofindia <indian...@googlegroups.com>

[Pankaj Kumar]

Respected Sir

You have always been an expert.

Firstly, the correct spelling for the genus is Acanthophippium. Why? Because it was originally published by Blume with an "o" - attached image of protologue.

Most of these online websites have been a bit slow these days due to COVID and they have not been updating. while some websites have correct spelling.

Secondly, Acanthophippium gougahense is not found in India but here in Hong Kong. Yes it looks similar to A. bicolor but one easiest way to check is the tip of the labellum which is much shorter and broader in A. gougahense but narrower and longer in A. bicolor..

One major difference can be seen when you dissect the flowers. Dorsal sepal is much larger in (25-39 mm) in A. bicolor, 18-22 mm in A. gougahense. Labellum has three long ridges in the middle in A. bicolor, but in A. gougahense, the central ridge is much shorter and limited to the front.

A. curtisii has a much broader labellum with 5 ridges on the labellum. The base of the flower is extended like spur which is not the case in other two,

A. striatum has more white flowers while the rest are yellow, all bearing red stripes. Labellum has only one ridge in the middle and base of flower is spur like.

Hope this helps.

The flower here belongs to A. bicolor.

Thanks and regards

Pankaj

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes Pankaj, I found it strange to find both genera listed in our database.

Dr. Gurcharan Singh

Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.

https://www.gurcharanfamily.com/

[J.M. Garg]

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From: Siva Prasad <siva...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar, 2021, 1:04 pm
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:377193] Re: Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl.
To: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com>

Good day Garg ji.

Thank you for your mail. It is nice that you enlightened me with the required correction of the Genus Acanthophippium instead of the wrongly mentioned Acanthephippium.  I sincerely thank Dr. Pankag Kumar for pointing it out. Otherwise the wrong spelling would have been carried on for long.  

Regards

Sivaprasad

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