Acampe rigida

Description:   The Stiff Acampe is a medium-sized epiphytic orchid that grows on trees, featuring a stout, often branched stem with thick, rigid, upward-growing leaves that have minutely bilobed tips. It produces an erect, short-branched inflorescence about 6 inches long, bearing a few to several flowers. The flowers, approximately 1.8 cm wide, are yellow with red bars. The flower cluster, including racemes, measures 15-20 cm long with widely spaced branches. Its base is covered with cup-shaped sheaths, while the short branches hold small, rounded floral bracts. The sepals are broadly oblong and blunt, while the small petals are obovate-oblong. The sac-like lip has short lateral lobes and an ovate, blunt mid-lobe with a central channel. The sac is short and rounded, featuring a vertical hairy plate opposite the column. The short, stout column lacks a foot, and the anther at the branch ends is two-loculed, with two spherical, deeply bipartite pollinia. Stiff Acampe is native to China, T