Acanthephippium bicolor

 Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 20: t. 1730 1835.

Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl., Photos by Mathew Jose Mathew 

Latinh Name: 

Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl.,

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Two Colored Acanthephippium

Description: 

With clustered, large, smooth, ovate, deeply sulcate with age pseduobulbs often flushed with purple and tapering above into a thin stem carrying 2 apical, folded, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, eventually deciduous, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a short, erect. to 3 cm long, enveloped by 6, imbricating, scaly bracts, to 6 flowered inflorescence with prominent, cymbiform, striate, pale purple, 9 to 11 veined floral bracts bracts and carrying cup-shaped, waxy, candy scented flowers.

Distribution:

Southern India and Sri Lanka.

Ecological:

In tropical wet evergreen forets at elevations up to 650 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

5.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Type:

pharmacological

Antimicrobial activity of the various solvent extracts (methanol, ethanol, chloroform, acetone, ethyl acetate, benzene and hexane) is screened for both summer and winter samples. Of the 35 organisms studied, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus foecalis, Bacillus cereus, Proteus vulgaris, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, Microsporum audouinii, Microsporum fulvum, Candida albicans and Trichophyton rubrum are found to be sensitive to leaf extracts. The Gram-positive bacteria are found to be more sensitive than Gram-negative bacteria and fungi. The inhibition is found to be more in methanol extract. This proves that the bioactive compounds reside in methanolic extract

Cite:

Lindley and Kala.. “Antimicrobial activity of Acanthephippium bicolor ,.” (2010).