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Robiquetia camptocentrum

Robiquetia camptocentrum

Robiquetia camptocentrum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm., Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 72 (1912) 113

Type: Schlechter 14489 (holo B, lost)

Synonyms:

  • Saccolabium camptocentrum Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 225
    - Type: Schlechter 14489 (holo B, lost)

Epiphytic, unbranched, pendent, to 70 cm long. Stem thick, somewhat flattened, entirely covered with the leaf-sheaths, leafy, to 30 cm long, c. 1 cm diam. Leaves erect-patent, strap-shaped, at the apex unequally and obtusely bilobed, coriaceous, glabrous, 25-35 by 2.5-3 cm, at the base slightly narrowed; leaf-sheaths keeled. Inflorescence pendulous, slender, with a few very distant, laxly clasping peduncle-scales, terete, glabrous, c. 15 cm long; rachis rather densely many-flowered, cylindrical, c. 6 cm long, 2.5 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, slightly more than half as long as the ovary. Flowers patent. Sepals oblong, 0.7 cm long, glabrous. Median sepals broadly obtuse. Lateral sepals oblique, shortly acuminate. Petals obliquely oblong-subspathulate, obtuse, 0.6 cm long. Lip blade in outline oblong, obtuse, 0.8 cm long, glabrous; mouth of the spur in the middle constricted or even partly closed by lateral calli, when dried forming a double opening; spur funnel-shaped, at the apex slightly widened, hook-like incurved, c. 1 cm long. Column thick, very short; rostellum ligulate, ascending, apex emarginate. Anther ovate, in front rostrate-acuminate; pollinia 2, globose; stipe linear, convex, much longer than the pollinia; viscidium lanceolate, hidden under the tip of the stipe. Ovary shortly pedicellate, clavate, c. 1 cm long, glabrous.
(After Schlechter, 1905)


Flower yellow with brown spots.

Epiphyte in lower montane forest; 600 to 1000 m.

Malesia (New Guinea).

Papua New Guinea. See map

distribution map

Intermediate growing epiphyte.

March, April.

  • Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 985
  • Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1928) t. 347, fig. 1337
  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Vandeae
  • Subtribe Aeridinae
  • Genus Robiquetia
  • Species Robiquetia camptocentrum

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Robiquetia camptocentrum

Robiquetia camptocentrum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm., drawing R. Schlechter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1928) t. 347, fig. 1337