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Acampe is a genus of hardy, monopodial epiphytes that often form large clumps on trees. Stem is erect, rigid, branching. Leaves are oblong, bilobed at the tips, distichous, thick, leathery, sheathing the stem at their base. Inflorescence is axillary, short, bearing numerous overcrowded, rigid, dull-yellow flowers marked with horizontal maroon stripes on the tepals. Lip is white with fine purple spots (Fig. 2.1).
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Teoh, E.S. (2021). Acampe Lindl.. In: Orchid Species from Himalaya and Southeast Asia Vol. 1 (A - E). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58872-4_2
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