| Robiquetia cerina, yellow form photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | (Reichenbach f.) Garay, Leslie Andrew |
| published in | Botanical Museum Leaflets 23 ( 4 ) : 196 1972 | |
| yellow form | color variation | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Vandeae | |
| subtribe | Aeridinae | |
| genus | Robiquetia Gaudichaud 1829 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | rain forests inIndonesia (Java), Papua, The Philippines (Luzon, Negros, Mindanao) |
| altitude | 50 - 600 m (165 - 1980 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Bacolod (West Negros, Philippines) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Am, tropical monsoon climate (a dry season and a wet season very rainy) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 300 m / 990 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Bacolod this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 43 m' to 11 h 17 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | length | 12 - 15 cm (4.8" - 6"), axillary |
| nr flowers | ≈ 80 | |
| size | single flower 1 L 0.5 cm (0.4" L 0.2") - spur 0.7 cm (0.28") - inflorescence 6.5 L 3.5 cm (2.6" L 1.4") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 40 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 80 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
