''Robiquetia'', commonly known as pouched orchids, or 寄树兰属 (ji shu lan shu), is a

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s from the orchid

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. 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

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and subtropical

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to the Western

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Description

Orchids in the genus ''Robiquetia'' are epiphytic,

monopodial Vascular plants with monopodial growth habits grow upward from a single point. They add leaves to the apex each year and the stem grows longer accordingly. The word ''Monopodial'' is derived from Greek "mono-", ''one'' and "podial", "foot", in refe ...

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

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s 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 Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (September 4, 1789 – January 16, 1854) was a French botanist. Biography Gaudichaud was born in Angoulême, to J-J. Gaudichaud and Rose (Mallat) Gaudichaud. He studied pharmacology informally at Cognac and Angoulême, ...

and the description was published in his book '' Voyage autour du monde'' from a specimen collected in the

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. The

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

is '' Robiquetia ascendens''. The name ''Robiquetia'' honours the French chemist

Pierre Jean Robiquet Pierre Jean Robiquet (13 January 1780 – 29 April 1840) was a French chemist. He laid founding work in identifying amino acids, the fundamental building blocks of proteins. He did this through recognizing the first of them, asparagine, in 1806 ...

. Species list: The following is a list of species of ''Robiquetia'' accepted by the

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (usually abbreviated to WCSP) is an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected pla ...

as of December 2018: *'' Robiquetia aberrans'' (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. - Thailand to Malesia * ''

Robiquetia adelineana ''Robiquetia'', commonly known as pouched orchids, or 寄树兰属 (ji shu lan shu), is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are epiphytes with long, sometimes branched, fibrous stems, leathery l ...

'' 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 ''Robiquetia cerina'' is a species of orchid endemic to the Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ...

'' (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 ''Robiquetia'', commonly known as pouched orchids, or 寄树兰属 (ji shu lan shu), is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are epiphytes with long, sometimes branched, fibrous stems, leathery l ...

'' (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 ''Robiquetia'', commonly known as pouched orchids, or 寄树兰属 (ji shu lan shu), is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid Family (biology), family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are epiphytes with long, sometimes branched, fibrous ...

'' (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

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, the

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, Fiji,

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and

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, Australia (2 species, 1

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