Robiquetia flexa
Robiquetia flexa (Rchb.f.) Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 23, 4 (1972) 196
Type: Veitch cult. (Macfarlane) s.n. (New Guinea)
Synonyms:
- Saccolabium flexum Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. (1882, II) 520
- Type: Veitch cult. (Macfarlane) s.n. (New Guinea) - Ornithochilus moretonii F.M.Bailey, Queensland Agric. J. 5 (1899) 40
- Type: Lamington cult. (Bailey) s.n. (New Guinea, Samarai) (holo BRI)
Inflorescence straight, densely many- or few-flowered. Sepals and petals ligulate, subacute. Lip 3-lobed; lateral lobes minute, obtuse; mid-lobe triangular, fleshy; spur saccate, obtuse, at the mouth with a crescent-shaped callus.
(After Reichenbach f., 1882)
Flowers probably scarlet.
Epiphyte in lowland forest.
Malesia (New Guinea).
Papua New Guinea, locality unspecified.
Warm growing epiphyte.
Not known.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Vandeae
- Subtribe Aeridinae
- Genus Robiquetia
- Species Robiquetia flexa
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Robiquetia flexa
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