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Acampe rigida
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Family:
ORCHIDACEAE
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Citation: Acampe rigida (Buch.-Ham. ex J.E. Smith) P.F. Hunt., Kew Bull. 24: 98. 1970; N.P. Singh & Dawre, Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 4: 1021. 1983; Muktesh, Epiphytic Fl. Western Ghats 74. 1998; Sathish & Manilal, Orchid Memories 163. 2004.
Aerides rigida Buch.-Ham. ex J.E. Smith in Rees, Cyclop. 39. 1819.
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Description:
Epiphytes with very stout, non-pseudobulbous, 60-90 cm long stems. Leaves 15-30 x 3.7 cm, lorate, thickly coriaceous, shortly 2-lobed. Flowers yellow, barred with red, 1.8 cm broad, in many-flowered stoutly peduncled panicles; peduncle with racemes 15-20 cm long, distantly branched, base with cupular sheaths, branches short; floral bracts small, annular, rounded. Sepals broadly oblong, obtuse. Petals small, obovate-oblong. Lip saccate, lateral lobes short, midlobe ovate, obtuse, channelled in the middle, sac short, rounded with a vertical hairy plate projecting in the hollow opposite the column; column short, stout; foot absent. Anther terminal, 2-loculed; pollinia 2, globose deeply bipartite.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-June
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District(s):
Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Africa to Indo-Malesia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
Yes
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kanjikode
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