Robiquetia
Robiquetia, commonly known as pouched orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are epiphytes with long, sometimes branched, fibrous stems, leathery leaves in two ranks and large numbers of small, densely crowded flowers on a pendulous flowering stem. There are about eighty species found from tropical and subtropical Asia to the Western Pacific.
Description
Orchids in the genus Robiquetia are epiphytic, monopodial herbs with pendulous, fibrous, sometimes branching stems and many smooth roots. The leaves are arranged in two ranks and are thick and leathery, oblong to elliptic, with a divided, asymmetrical, tip. Many small, densely crowded flowers are arranged on a pendulous flowering stem that emerges from a leaf axil. The sepals and petals are similar to each other and the labellum has three lobes and an inflated spur on its tip.Taxonomy and naming
The genus Robiquetia was first formally described in 1829 by Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré and the description was published in his book Voyage autour du monde from a specimen collected in the Maluku Islands. The type species is Robiquetia ascendens. The name Robiquetia honours the French chemist Pierre Jean Robiquet.In Chinese, members of this genus are known as 寄树兰属
Species list:
The following is a list of species of Robiquetia accepted by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families as of December 2018:
- Robiquetia aberrans Kocyan & Schuit. - Thailand to MalesiaRobiquetia adelineana P.O'Byrne - MalaysiaRobiquetia amboinensis J.J.Sm. - AmbonRobiquetia amesiana Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia anceps J.J.Sm. - TernateRobiquetia andamanica Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia angustifolia Schltr. - SulawesiRobiquetia arunachalensis Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia ascendens Gaudich. - MalukuRobiquetia batakensis Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia bertholdii Schltr. - Fiji, Santa Cruz Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu Robiquetia bicruris J.J.Sm.Robiquetia bifida Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia brassii Ormerod - New GuineaRobiquetia brevifolia Garay - Sri LankaRobiquetia brevisaccata Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia camptocentrum J.J.Sm. - New GuineaRobiquetia cerina Garay - PhilippinesRobiquetia cladophylax Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia compressa Schltr. - PhilippinesRobiquetia crassa Schltr. - SarawakRobiquetia crockerensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & al. - Sarawak, SabahRobiquetia culicifera Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia dentifera J.J.Sm. - SeramRobiquetia discolor Seidenf. & Garay - PhilippinesRobiquetia dutertei Cootes, Naive & M.LeonRobiquetia eburnea Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia enigma Ferreras & W.Suarez - PhilippinesRobiquetia flammea Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia flexa Garay - New GuineaRobiquetia forbesii Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia gautierensis Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia glomerata Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia gracilis Garay - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman and Nicobar IslandsRobiquetia gracilistipes J.J.Sm. - Queensland, New Guinea, SolomonsRobiquetia hamata Schltr. - New GuineaRobiquetia hansenii J.J.Sm - MentawaiRobiquetia honhoffii Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia inflata Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia insectifera Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia josephiana Manilal & C.S.Kumar - KeralaRobiquetia juliae Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia kawakamii Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia kusaiensis Fukuy. - KosraeRobiquetia ligulata Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia longipedunculata Schltr. - SulawesiRobiquetia lutea Schltr. - Caroline IslandsRobiquetia lyonii Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia millariae Ormerod - SolomonsRobiquetia minahassae J.J.Sm. - SulawesiRobiquetia minimiflora Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia pachyphylla Garay - Myanmar, Thailand, VietnamRobiquetia palawensis Tuyama - PalauRobiquetia palustris Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia pantherina Ames - PhilippinesRobiquetia penangiana Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia pinosukensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & al. - Sabah, SarawakRobiquetia punctata Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia reflexa Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia rosea Garay - Karnataka, Sri LankaRobiquetia sanguinicors Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia schizogenia J.M.H.ShawRobiquetia serpentina Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia spathulata J.J.Sm - Hainan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Assam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, VietnamRobiquetia sphingoides Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia steffensii Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia succisa Seidenf. & Garay - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, BangladeshRobiquetia sulitiana Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia sylvestris Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia tomaniensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb - SabahRobiquetia tongaensis P.J.Cribb & Ormerod - TongaRobiquetia transversisaccata J.J.Wood in J.J.Wood & al. - Sabah, SarawakRobiquetia trukensis Tuyama - ChuukRobiquetia vanoverberghii Ames - PhilippinesRobiquetia vaupelii Ormerod & J.J.Wood - Fiji, SamoaRobiquetia vietnamensis Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia virescens Ormerod & S.S.Fernando - Sri LankaRobiquetia viridirosea J.J.Sm. - Buru, SeramRobiquetia wariana Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia wassellii Dockrill - QueenslandRobiquetia witteana Kocyan & Schuit.Robiquetia woodfordii Garay - Solomons