Acampe praemorsa var. rigida (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Smith) Barbhuiya, D.Verma & Vik. Kumar, 2017

Barbhuiya, Hussain Ahmed, Verma, Durgesh, Kumar, Vikas & Dey, Santanu, 2017, Critical notes on some taxa of the genus Acampe Lindl. (Orchidaceae), Phytotaxa 303 (3), pp. 271-278 : 274-277

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.303.3.7
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D987FF-FF94-FFCF-69D4-7B50FE8D8A8E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Acampe praemorsa var. rigida (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Smith) Barbhuiya, D.Verma & Vik. Kumar
status	stat. nov.

Treatment

Acampe praemorsa var. rigida (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Smith) Barbhuiya, D.Verma & Vik. Kumar View in CoL , stat. nov. ( Fig. View FIGURE 3

Basionym: Aerides rigida Buchanan-Hamilton ex Smith (1819 View in CoL : Aerides View in CoL no. 12). Type:— NEPAL. icon. Buchanan-Hamilton (holotype: LINN).

Homotypic Synonyms: Acampe rigida (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Smith) Hunt (1970: 98) View in CoL .

Heterotypic Synonyms: Vanda multiflora Lindley (1821 : t. 38); Acampe multiflora (Lindley) Lindley (1853: 1) . Type:— CHINA. icon. Lindley ( BM) .

Vanda longifolia Lindley (1833: 215) View in CoL ; Acampe longifolia (Lindley) Lindley (1853: 1) View in CoL . Saccolabium longifolium (Lindley) Hooker (1890: 62) View in CoL . Type:— MYANMAR. Tavoy, Kilalien, 8 October 1827, Gomez in Wall. Cat. No. 7322 (K-001127173).

Acampe intermedia Reichenbach (1856: 217) View in CoL . Type:— INDIA View in CoL . West Bengal: Calcutta, Schiller s.n. (holotype: B).

Acampe penangiana Ridley (1896: 358) View in CoL . Type:— MALAYSIA. Penang: Government Hill , August 1889, Curtis 1963 (holotype: SING-0042622; isotype: K-000942343).

Vanda viminea Guillaumin (1930: 336) View in CoL . Type:— VIETNAM. Bien Hoa, December 1872, Pierre 6560 (isosyntype: AMES-00090775).

Acampe taiwaniana Ying (1974: 30) View in CoL .

Distribution:— India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines.

Specimens examined:— INDIA . Assam: Goalpara, 21 August 1808, Buchanan-Hamilton in Wall. Cat. No. 7325 (K-001127179 image!) ; Kamrup, Rajapara R.F., August 2003, Rabha 60292 (ASSAM!). Lakhimpur, Kadam R.F., 12 March 1962, Panigrahi 27781 (ASSAM!) ; North Lakhimpur , s.l., Baruah s.n. (ASSAM!) ; Sikkim, May 1892, Pantling 250 (BM-000539380 image!) ; Uttarakhand: Pithoragarh, 20 May 1983, Hajra 74471 ( BSD!). NEPAL. s.l., 25 August 1984, Stainton 8853 (BM-000539395 image!). SRI LANKA. s.l., Thwaites 3492 (BM-000539385 image!). LAOS. Muông Pun, Prov. de Fan Neua , 18 September 1920, Poilane 1916 (P-00419669 image!) ; Ka Khe, February 1876, Harmand 2/76 (AMES-00256488, P-00419662, 00419663, 00419664 image!). CAMBODIA. Hang Khe, Spire 89 (P-00419665, 00419666 image!). VIETNAM. Kien Khe 19 May 1884, Bon 2329 (P-00419672, 00419673 image!) ; Tonkin, December 1885, Balansa 314 (P-00419679, 00419680 image!) ; Annam, Phanrang, 14 November 1923, Poilane 8573 (AMES-00256487, P-00419678 image!) .

Note:—Authors have preferred to treat Acampe rigida as a variety of A. praemorsa instead of a subspecies as because both the taxa were occurring in same geographical area and merely differing from each other in the size of leaf and flower.

BM	Bristol Museum
BSD	Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Liliopsida
Order	Asparagales
Family	Orchidaceae
Genus	Acampe