Robiquetia bertholdii (Rchb.f.) Schltr.1913 Photo by Katja Schulz and Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name or Meaning Berthold's Robiquetia

Flower Size 1/8" [3.25 mm]

Found in Fiji, Santa Cruz Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu at the seashore up to the lower montane forests at elevations of sea level to 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a fleshy stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying alternate, to 5, oblong, unequally bilobed apically, light green leaves that blooms on a lateral, 3.6" to 8" [9 to 20 cm] long, 30 to 45 flowered, racemose inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Gastrochilus constrictus (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Malleola graeffei (Rchb.f.) P.F.Hunt 1970; Malleola mimus (Rchb.f.) P.F.Hunt 1970; Robiquetia constricta (Rchb.f.) Garay 1972; Robiquetia graeffei (Rchb.f.) Garay 1972; Robiquetia mimus (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972; Saccolabium bertholdii Rchb.f. 1868; Saccolabium constrictum Rchb.f. 1878; Saccolabium graeffei Rchb.f. 1881; Saccolabium kajewskii Ames 1932; *Saccolabium mimus Rchb. f. 1878;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Saccolabium constrictum; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 12 1982 stamp as R mimus drawing ok; Die Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as R mimus; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Crib 1989 drawing good; Orchids of The Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994

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