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This brief chapter discusses the botanical and medicinal usage of Renanthera and Rhynchostylis, two very popular tropical orchids in cultivation, and Robequetia. Rhynchostylis retusa has a prominent place among Indian medicinal plants described by van Rheede in 1703 in his Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, the first European publication in which medicinal Asian orchid species were described.
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Teoh, E.S. (2016). Genus: Renanathera to Robequetia . In: Medicinal Orchids of Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24274-3_19
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