Acampe ochracea (Lindl.) Hochr. 1910

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Woon Leng Nursery © and their Orchid Website

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Common Name The Ochre-Yellow Acampa

Flower Size 1/4 to .4" [6 to 10 mm]

Found in Bangladesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Sikkim India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Myanamar, Vietnam and China at elevations of 700 to 1100 meters as a small to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect to pendulous stem enveloped completely by many leaf-bearing sheaths most carrying lorate, narrowly oblong, thickly coriaceous, keeled, unequally and bluntly bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late winter through spring on an axillary, 3.2 to 10" [8 to 25 cm] long, paniculate, each branch .4 to 2" [1 to 5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Acampe dentata Lindl. 1853; Acampe griffithii Rchb.f. 1872; Gastrochilus ochraceus (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium lineolatum Thwaites 1861; *Saccolabium ochraceum Lindl. 1842

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Saccolabium ochraceum; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002