The genus
Robiquetia was first formally described in 1829 by
Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré and the description was published in his book
Voyage autour du monde from a specimen collected in the
Maluku Islands. The
type species is
Robiquetia ascendens. The name
Robiquetia honours the French chemist
Pierre Jean Robiquet. In Chinese, members of this genus are known as 寄树兰属 (jì shù lán shǔ).)
Species list: The following is a list of species of
Robiquetia accepted by the
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families as of December 2018: •
Robiquetia aberrans (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. - Thailand to Malesia •
Robiquetia adelineana P.O'Byrne - Malaysia •
Robiquetia amboinensis (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm. - Ambon •
Robiquetia amesiana Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia anceps J.J.Sm. - Ternate •
Robiquetia andamanica (N.P.Balakr. & N.Bhargava) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia angustifolia Schltr. - Sulawesi •
Robiquetia arunachalensis (A.N.Rao) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia ascendens Gaudich. - Maluku •
Robiquetia batakensis (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia bertholdii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Fiji, Santa Cruz Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu •
Robiquetia bicruris J.J.Sm. •
Robiquetia bifida (Lindl.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia brassii Ormerod - New Guinea •
Robiquetia brevifolia (Lindl.) Garay - Sri Lanka •
Robiquetia brevisaccata (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia camptocentrum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. - New Guinea •
Robiquetia cerina (Rchb.f.) Garay - Philippines •
Robiquetia cladophylax (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia compressa (Lindl.) Schltr. - Philippines •
Robiquetia crassa (Ridl.) Schltr. - Sarawak •
Robiquetia crockerensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & al. - Sarawak, Sabah •
Robiquetia culicifera (Ridl.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia dentifera J.J.Sm. - Seram •
Robiquetia discolor (Rchb.f.) Seidenf. & Garay - Philippines •
Robiquetia dutertei Cootes, Naive & M.Leon •
Robiquetia eburnea (W.Suarez & Cootes) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia enigma Ferreras & W.Suarez - Philippines •
Robiquetia flammea (R.Boos, Cootes & W.Suarez) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia flexa (Rchb.f.) Garay - New Guinea •
Robiquetia forbesii (Ridl.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia gautierensis (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia glomerata (Rolfe) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia gracilis (Lindl.) Garay - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman and Nicobar Islands •
Robiquetia gracilistipes (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. - Queensland, New Guinea, Solomons •
Robiquetia hamata Schltr. - New Guinea •
Robiquetia hansenii J.J.Sm - Mentawai •
Robiquetia honhoffii (Schuit. & A.Vogel) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia inflata (Metusala & P.O'Byrne) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia insectifera (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia josephiana Manilal & C.S.Kumar - Kerala •
Robiquetia juliae (P.O'Byrne) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia kawakamii (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia kusaiensis Fukuy. - Kosrae •
Robiquetia ligulata (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia longipedunculata Schltr. - Sulawesi •
Robiquetia lutea (Volk) Schltr. - Caroline Islands •
Robiquetia lyonii (Ames) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia millariae Ormerod - Solomons •
Robiquetia minahassae (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. - Sulawesi •
Robiquetia minimiflora (Hook.f.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia pachyphylla (Rchb.f.) Garay - Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam •
Robiquetia palawensis Tuyama - Palau •
Robiquetia palustris (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia pantherina (Kraenzl.) Ames - Philippines •
Robiquetia penangiana (Hook.f.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia pinosukensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & al. - Sabah, Sarawak •
Robiquetia punctata (J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia reflexa (R.Boos & Cootes) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia rosea (Lindl.) Garay - Karnataka, Sri Lanka •
Robiquetia sanguinicors (P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia schizogenia (Ferreras, Cootes & R.Boos) J.M.H.Shaw •
Robiquetia serpentina (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia spathulata (Blume) J.J.Sm - Hainan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Assam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam •
Robiquetia sphingoides (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia steffensii (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia succisa (Lindl.) Seidenf. & Garay - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh •
Robiquetia sulitiana (Ormerod) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia sylvestris (Ridl.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia tomaniensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb - Sabah •
Robiquetia tongaensis P.J.Cribb & Ormerod - Tonga •
Robiquetia transversisaccata (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood in J.J.Wood & al. - Sabah, Sarawak •
Robiquetia trukensis Tuyama - Chuuk •
Robiquetia vanoverberghii Ames - Philippines •
Robiquetia vaupelii (Schltr.) Ormerod & J.J.Wood - Fiji, Samoa •
Robiquetia vietnamensis (Guillaumin) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia virescens Ormerod & S.S.Fernando - Sri Lanka •
Robiquetia viridirosea J.J.Sm. - Buru, Seram •
Robiquetia wariana (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia wassellii Dockrill - Queensland •
Robiquetia witteana (Rchb.f.) Kocyan & Schuit. •
Robiquetia woodfordii (Rolfe) Garay - Solomons ==Distribution==