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 (jì shù lán shǔ).)
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 (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. - Thailand to Malesia Robiquetia adelineana P.O'Byrne - Malaysia Robiquetia amboinensis (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm. - Ambon Robiquetia amesiana Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia anceps J.J.Sm. - Ternate Robiquetia andamanica (N.P.Balakr. & N.Bhargava) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia angustifolia Schltr. - Sulawesi Robiquetia arunachalensis (A.N.Rao) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia ascendens Gaudich. - Maluku Robiquetia batakensis (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia bertholdii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Fiji, Santa Cruz Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu Robiquetia bicruris J.J.Sm. Robiquetia bifida (Lindl.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia brassii Ormerod - New Guinea Robiquetia brevifolia (Lindl.) Garay - Sri Lanka Robiquetia brevisaccata (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia camptocentrum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. - New Guinea Robiquetia cerina (Rchb.f.) Garay - Philippines Robiquetia cladophylax (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia compressa (Lindl.) Schltr. - Philippines Robiquetia crassa (Ridl.) Schltr. - Sarawak Robiquetia crockerensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & al. - Sarawak, Sabah Robiquetia culicifera (Ridl.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia dentifera J.J.Sm. - Seram Robiquetia discolor (Rchb.f.) Seidenf. & Garay - Philippines Robiquetia dutertei Cootes, Naive & M.Leon Robiquetia eburnea (W.Suarez & Cootes) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia enigma Ferreras & W.Suarez - Philippines Robiquetia flammea (R.Boos, Cootes & W.Suarez) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia flexa (Rchb.f.) Garay - New Guinea Robiquetia forbesii (Ridl.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia gautierensis (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia glomerata (Rolfe) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia gracilis (Lindl.) Garay - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Robiquetia gracilistipes (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. - Queensland, New Guinea, Solomons Robiquetia hamata Schltr. - New Guinea Robiquetia hansenii J.J.Sm - Mentawai Robiquetia honhoffii (Schuit. & A.Vogel) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia inflata (Metusala & P.O'Byrne) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia insectifera (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia josephiana Manilal & C.S.Kumar - Kerala Robiquetia juliae (P.O'Byrne) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia kawakamii (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia kusaiensis Fukuy. - Kosrae Robiquetia ligulata (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia longipedunculata Schltr. - Sulawesi Robiquetia lutea (Volk) Schltr. - Caroline Islands Robiquetia lyonii (Ames) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia millariae Ormerod - Solomons Robiquetia minahassae (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. - Sulawesi Robiquetia minimiflora (Hook.f.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia pachyphylla (Rchb.f.) Garay - Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam Robiquetia palawensis Tuyama - Palau Robiquetia palustris (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia pantherina (Kraenzl.) Ames - Philippines Robiquetia penangiana (Hook.f.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia pinosukensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & al. - Sabah, Sarawak Robiquetia punctata (J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia reflexa (R.Boos & Cootes) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia rosea (Lindl.) Garay - Karnataka, Sri Lanka Robiquetia sanguinicors (P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia schizogenia (Ferreras, Cootes & R.Boos) J.M.H.Shaw Robiquetia serpentina (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia spathulata (Blume) J.J.Sm - Hainan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Assam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam Robiquetia sphingoides (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia steffensii (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia succisa (Lindl.) Seidenf. & Garay - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh Robiquetia sulitiana (Ormerod) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia sylvestris (Ridl.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia tomaniensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb - Sabah Robiquetia tongaensis P.J.Cribb & Ormerod - Tonga Robiquetia transversisaccata (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood in J.J.Wood & al. - Sabah, Sarawak Robiquetia trukensis Tuyama - Chuuk Robiquetia vanoverberghii Ames - Philippines Robiquetia vaupelii (Schltr.) Ormerod & J.J.Wood - Fiji, Samoa Robiquetia vietnamensis (Guillaumin) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia virescens Ormerod & S.S.Fernando - Sri Lanka Robiquetia viridirosea J.J.Sm. - Buru, Seram Robiquetia wariana (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia wassellii Dockrill - Queensland Robiquetia witteana (Rchb.f.) Kocyan & Schuit. Robiquetia woodfordii (Rolfe) Garay - Solomons
Distribution Orchids in the genus Robiquetia occur in China (2 species), the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Malesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Queensland, Australia (2 species, 1 endemic).
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