Robiquetia tongaensis P.J.Cribb & Ormerod 2005 publ. 2006

Photo by © Whistler

Common Name The Tongan Robiquetia

Flower Size

Found in Tonga in littoral to foothill forest at elevations of sea level to 250 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying thick, coriaceous-fleshy, oblong, bilobed apically, undulate margined leaves that blooms on an axillary, shoirt, curved, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, rachis rather fleshy, densely many flowered inflorescence with small, triangular floral bracts nd carrying more or less campanulate flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankestriana 11(2): 99-177 Whistler & Cribb 2011 Photo fide

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