Robiquetia pachyphylla (Rchb.f.) Garay 1972
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Common Name The Broad Leafed Robiquetia
Flower Size
Found in Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam as a warm 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 1959 as R fuerstenbergiana drawing fide; Orchid Genera in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam Schuiteman & Vogel 2000
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