Robiquetia pachyphylla (Rchb.f.) Garay 1972 Photo by © Seidenfaden
Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Buterfly & Orchid Webpage
Common Name The Broad Leafed Robiquetia
Flower Size
Found in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in montane forests at elevations of 1540 to 1850 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and a few short, mostly fleshy, obtusely unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a lateral, several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Aerides pachyphylla Rchb.f. 1880; Cleisocentron collettianum (King & Pantl.) Garay 1972; Robiquetia fuerstenbergiana (Schltr.) Schltr. 1913; Saccolabium collettianum King & Pantl 1897; Saccolabium fuerstenbergianum Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1885/1995 as Aerides pachyphyllum; The Orchids of Thailand Seiddenfaden & Smitinand 1963 as R fuerstenbergiana drawing fide; Opera Botanica #95 1988 drawing fide/photo fide to the first photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989 as Cleisocenton colletianum; Orchid Genera in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam Schuiteman & Vogel 2000; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide to Seidenfaden's photo; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide to Seidenfaden's photo; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo fide
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