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Robiquetia
Robiquetia, commonly known as pouched orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are epiphytes with long, sometimes branched, fibrous stems, leathery leaves in two ranks and large numbers of small, densely crowded flowers on a pendulous flowering stem. There are about eighty species found from tropical and subtropical Asia to the Western Pacific.
Orchids in the genus Robiquetia occur in China (2 species), the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Malesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Queensland, Australia (2 species, 1 endemic).
Robiquetia aberrans · Robiquetia bifida · Robiquetia cerina · Robiquetia gracilistipes · Tiny-flowered Abdominea · Robiquetia pantherina · Robiquetia spathulata · Robiquetia succisa · Green pouched orchid
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