Acampe rigida (Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.) P.F.Hunt 1970 Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Flower Closeup Photos by © Manorot Tangsaveepha and hisButterfly and Orchids Website

Part Sun HotSpringSummer

Common Name or Meaning The Stiff Acampe - In Thailand - Ueang tin tao - Ueang dawk makham

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in China, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sri Lankha, western Himalayas, Cambodia, Myanamar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines in tropical valleys on shady cliffs on karst limestone outcrops and or on trees at the forests edge at elvations of 300 to 800 meters as a large to giant sized, hot growing lithophyte or occasional epiphyte with a stout, often branched stem carrying thick, stiffly ascending, unequally yet minutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, shortly branched, 6" [15 cm] long, stout, few to several flowered inflorescence with fleshy flowers

Synonyms Acampe intermedia Rchb.f. 1856; Acampe longifolia (Lindl.) Lindl. 1853; Acampe multiflora (Lindl.) Lindl. 1853; Acampe penangiana Ridl. 1896; Acampe taiwaniana S.S.Ying 1974; *Aerides rigida Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. 1818; Acampe wightiana var. longipedunculata Trimen 1885 ; Gastrochilus longifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium longifolium (Lindl.) Hook.f. 1890 ; Vanda longifolia Lindl. 1833; Vanda multiflora Lindl. 1826; Vanda viminea Guillaumin 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Saccolabium longifolium; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 as A longifolia; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Acampe longifolia drawing; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Siedenfaden 1992; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Lindleyana Vol 14 No 4 2000; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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