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Robiquetia rectifolia is an orchid species identified by Dockrill in 1967. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Saccolabiopsis rectifolia.
ORIGIN: Found in northern Queensland Australia in rainforests on twigs and outer branches of trees over streams at elevations of 100 to 400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an unbranched sterm carrying 3 to 6, crowded, prostrate to pendulous, distichous, alternate, sessile, ovate to falcate, light green to yellowish, thin textured, apically unequally emarginate leaves that blooms in the late fall through winter on an axillary, thickening towards the apex, .8 to 2.4 [2 to 6 cm] long, 4 to 15 flowered inflorescence carrying resupinate, porrect to nodding flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 to 2 inches [3 to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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