Robiquetia amesiana Kocyan & Schuit. 2014 Photos courtesy of Jim Cootes, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning Ames's Robiquetia [American Botanist specializing in orchids of the Philippines 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations of 60 to 700 meters as a miniature sized, pendulous, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a pendulous, fractiflex stem enveloped by withered, persistent sheaths carrying a 6 to 12, very leathery, alternate, narrowly oblong, velvetlike leaves that blooms on a pendulous, opposite the leaves, 1.4" to 3.6" [4 to 9 cm] long, to 50 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate bracts.

Synonyms Malleola constricta Ames 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Malleola constricta; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as Malleola constricta drawing/photo good; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 as Malleola constricta photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 3 2001 as Malleola constricta photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as Malleola constricta;

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