Editing Acrorchis

{{Short description|Genus of epiphytes}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Acrorchis roseola.jpg
| display_parents = 4
| genus = Acrorchis
| parent_authority = [[Robert Louis Dressler|Dressler]]
| species = roseola
| authority = [[Robert Louis Dressler|Dressler]]
}}

'''''Acrorchis''''' is a [[monotypic]] [[genus]] from the orchid family ([[Orchidaceae]]), subfamily [[Epidendroideae]], tribe [[Epidendreae]], subtribe [[Laeliinae]].

The only species, '''''Acrorchis roseola''''', is an [[epiphyte|epiphytic]] orchid that occurs in [[Costa Rica]] and [[Panama]]<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=2649 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> at heights between 900 and 2,500 m. It is clump-forming, magenta orchid, reaching a height of 15&nbsp;cm. The [[sepal]]s and [[petal]]s of its small [[flower]]s have distinct lengths and shapes. The base of the [[Labellum (botany)|lip]] has a white  color on the margins.<ref>Dressler, Robert Louis. 1990. ''Acrorchis'', a new genus from the mountains of Panama and Costa Rica  Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s. 12(1): 11-17, f.</ref>

This orchid is very rare in cultivation.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=51721 photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Panama, holotype of ''Acrorchis roseola'']

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[[Category:Laeliinae]]
[[Category:Monotypic Epidendroideae genera]]
[[Category:Orchids of Costa Rica]]
[[Category:Orchids of Panama]]
[[Category:Epiphytic orchids]]
[[Category:Laeliinae genera]]