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Acanthophippium
Blume ,Bijdr. (1825), 353.
Phajeae . IX .Gr. akantha (thron) , ephippion (saddle ). Probably from the shape of the blade of the lip, which , with its two parallel, toothed crests, bears a fanciful resemblance to a saddle.
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