Phalaenopsis
robinsonii (J.J.Smith 1917)
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Robinson's Phalaenopsis
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Distribution
: island of Amboine. Only one specimen collected in 1913
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Epiphytic plant. Roots
numerous, fleshy, flexuous, glabrous. Stem short, completely enclosed by imbricating leaf-sheaths. 4/5 leaves, fleshy, pendent, oblong-lanceolate, acute or sub-obtuse, at cuneate base, conduplicate, of more than 31 cm. of length on 5,5 cm. of broad. Flower stalk sub-erect or arcuate, simple, shorter than the foliage, few flowered. Bracts cuculate, ovate, acute of 5 mm. long. |
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Holotype of Phal.robinsonii preserved at Leyde Herbarium ( Netherlands) | ||||||
Description of Phalaenopsis
robinsonii par JJ Smith in 1917 "The Philippine Journal of Science"
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Some sentence from the Orchid
Review-februar 1914- about murder of Robinson
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