Common name: Small Warty Acampe • Sanskrit: Gandhanakuli, Rasna
Botanical name: Acampe papillosa Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family) Synonyms: Acampe carinata
Small Warty Acampe is a clump-forming orchid found in the
Eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanamar, up to an
altitude of 200 m. It is a large sized, single-stemmed, warm growing
epiphyte. It looks very much like a Vanda. It has a stout erect to curved
stem carrying narrowly oblong, strap-shaped, leathery leaves. Leaves are
slightly notched into 2 unequal lobes. Flowers arise in the fall on a
short, 1 inch long, many (10-12) flowered umbel with miniature, Vanda-like
flowers which are fragrant, held close in to the leaf axils.
Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar
| Photographed in Dehradoon, Uttarakhand. |
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