!Robiquetia ascendens Gaudich. 1829 No Photo

Part sunHot Winter

Common Name The Climbing Robiquetia

Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]

Found in the Moluccas in lowland and lower motane forests at elevations of 26 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte of the hill forests on twigs and tree branches in high light with stems carrying several, oblong, coriaceoous, margins recurved leaves that are mottled beneath and it blooms on a 8" [20 cm] long, pendulous inflorescence that has many [20 to 70], fleshy, long-lasting flowers, which open from the bottom up, all clustered towards the apex and occuring in the winter.

Synonyms Gastrochilus ascendens [Gaudich] Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium ascendens [Gaudich.] Lindl. 1833;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana: Orchids of New Guinea Vol 5 Schuiteman & D de Vogel 2008;

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