Robiquetia cerina (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Takato NATSU and his Japan Orchid Website
Photo by © Dennis Laperriere
Common Name The Waxy Flowered Robiquettia
Flower Size 1/4" [8 mm]
Found in Papua and New Guinea and the Philippines as an epiphyte at elevations over 350 meters occuring on tree trunks as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with rather broad, strongly compressed, ancipitous stems carrying several, leathery, 2 ranked, at right angles to the stem, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall, winter, spring and summer on a racemose, conical, pendulous, 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence that has a third of the flowers open at any one time.
Synonyms *Malleola merrillii Ames 1915 ; Robiquetia merrillii (Ames) Ames 1922; *Saccolabium cerinum Rchb. f. 1888
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as R merrillii; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 # 11 1994; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 photo fide;
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