Robiquetia vietnamensis (Guillaumin) Kocyan & Schuit. 2014
Robiquetia vietnamensis subsp. bathra P.O'Byrne 2017 Sabah & Kalimantan Borneo
Robiquetia vietnamensis subsp. intermedia P.O'Byrne 2017 Sabah Borneo
Robiquetia vietnamensis subsp. minima P.O'Byrne 2017 Sabah Borneo
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Common Name or Meaning The Vietnamese Robiquetia - In China Chui Zhu Lan
Flower Size 3/8" [.7 cm]
Found in southern Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Thailand, Borneo, Vietnam, penninsular Malaysia and Sumatra on tree trunks in forests at elevations of 600 to 700 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with elongate pendulous stems with the apices arising enveloped by basal leaf bearing sheaths carrying, several, narrowly lanceolate, oblique apically, slightly undulate leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, lateral to pendulous, dense and many flowered, 3.6" [9.1 cm] long, ribbed inflorescence that blooms in the summer with an axillary, short, several [10] flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Ascochilus vietnamensis Guillaumin 1964; Malleola dentifera J.J. Sm. 1927; Malleola seidenfadenii Christenson 1998; Malleola vietnamensis (Guillaumin) Guillaumin 1964; Robiquetia seidenfadenii (Christenson) Kocyan & Schuit. 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as Malleola dentifera; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1963 as Malleola dentifera drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as Malleola dentifera; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bild 70 Hft 1 Contributions to the flora of Thailand VI Seidenfaden 1975 as Malleola dentifera; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as Malleola dentifera drawing/photo fide; Opera Botanica #95 1988 as Malleola dentifera drawing fide/photo good; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as Malleola dentifera drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as Malleola dentifera; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as Malleola dentifera; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 as Malleola dentifera photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood etal 2001 as Malleola dentifera; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as M seidenfadenia; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 as Malleola dentifera photo ok; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Malleola dentifera photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Malleola dentifera; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Malleola dentifera; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 as Malleola dentifera photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 20 2017 drawing/photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 as Malleola dentifera; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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