Acampe papillosa (Lindley) Lindl. 1853 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

FragrancePart sunWarmFall

Common Name or Meaning The Small Warty Acampe

Flower Size 1/2" at largest [1.25 cm]

Found in the Eastern Himalayas, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanamar as a large sized, monopodial, clump-forming, warm growing epiphyte in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 950 meters that should be treated as the genus Vanda culturally and has a stout erect to curved stem carrying lorate, narrowly oblong, thickly coriceous, keeled, obliquely truncate, slightly notched into 2 unequal lobes, submucronate apically leaves that will bloom in the fall on a short, 1" [2.5 cm] long, many [10 to 12] flowered umbel with miniature fragrant flowers held close in to the leaf axils, if given partial sun and warm temperatures with regular year round watering and feedings.

Synonyms Acampe carinata (Griff.) S.G. Panigrahi 1985; Acampe praemorsa (Roxb.) Blatt. & McCann 1932; Acampe wightiana (Lindl. ex Wight) Lindl. 1853; Cymbidium praemorsum (Roxb.) Sw. 1799; *Epidendrum praemorsum Roxb. 1795; Gastrochilus carinatus (Griff.) Schltr. 1913; Gastrochilus papillosus Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium carinatum Griff. 1851; *Saccolabium papillosum Lindl. 1833; Saccolabium papillosum Dalzell & Gibson 1861; Rhynchostylis papillosa Heynh. 1846; Saccolabium praemorsum (Roxb.) Hook.f. 1890; Saccolabium wightianum (Lindl. ex Wight) Hook.f. 1890; Sarcanthus praemorsus (Roxb.) Lindl. ex Spreng. 1826; Sarcochilus praemorsus Spreng. 1828; Vanda wightiana Lindl. ex Wight 1851

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Saccolabium papillosum; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora's Orchids Nash and La Croix 2005;