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

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

 

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

Hua Cui Lan

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Hong Kong, 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 theforests edge at elvations of 300 to 800 meters as a large to giant sized, hot growing lithophyte or occasional epiphytewith a stout, often branched stem carrying thick, stiffly ascending, unequally yet minutely bilobed apically leavesthat blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, axillary, shortly branched, 6" [15 cm] long, stout, few to severalflowered 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; Vandaviminea Guillaumin 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as A multiflora; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as A intermedia; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Saccolabium longifolium; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Saccolabium longifolium drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 asAcampe multiflora; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Acampe longifolia drawing good; AOS

Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 as A longifolia; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Acampelongifolia drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as A longifolia; Encyclopedia of CultivatedOrchids Hawkes 1965 as A multiflora photo ok; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 asA longifolia photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1988; Orchids of Kumaun HimalayasPangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Siedenfaden 1992

drawing/photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo fide; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 14 No 4 2000;Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of ThailandVaddhanaphuti 2001 Photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of 

Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 Photo ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo ok; Native Orchids From

http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=onhttp://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.dohttp://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.htmlhttp://www.orchidfoto.com/http://www.orchidspecies.com/orphotdir/acamprigida.jpghttp://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/pubs/orchidweb/

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Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchidsof China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven &Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of WildOrchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye& Liu 2010 photos fide; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide;

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