Robiquetia minimiflora
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| name = Tiny-flowered abdominea
| image = Abdominea minimiflora.jpg
| genus = Robiquetia
| species = minimiflora
| authority = (Hook.f.) J.J.Sm. (1917)
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Robiquetia minimiflora, or the tiny-flowered abdominea, is a very rare monopodial epiphytic orchid species. It was previously known as the Abdominea minimiflora.{{Cite web|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77138198-1|title = Robiquetia minimiflora (Hook.f.) Kocyan & Schuit. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science}} It is distributed from Thailand to the Malay Peninsula, Java, and the Philippines.
The name is derived from the Latin abdomen, meaning belly. It refers to the similarity between the shape of the labellum (lip) and the shape of the abdomen of an insect.
The species produces very small flowers, about 0.45 cm wide, on a racemose, many-flowered inflorescence.
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- [http://www.orchidspecies.com/abdomminimiflora.htm IOSPE orchid photos Abdominea minimiflora ]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714170254/http://www.orchidiana.com/abdominea-minimiflora.html Orchidiana, Abdominea minimiflora]
- [http://www.siamexotica.com/Orchid-Abdominea.html Siam Exotica Plants, Orchid of Thailand, Abdominea สกุล แอ็บโดมีเนีย ตั้งชื่อโดย Johannes Jacobus Smith (J.J.Sm.) นักพฤกษศาสตร์ ชาวเดนมาร์ก เมื่อปี พ.ศ.2457 ซึ่งตั้งชื่อสกุลมาจากภาษาลาตินว่า abdomen หมายถึง จะงอยที่ยื่นยาวเหนือแอ่งเกสรตัวเมีย]
- [http://www.phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/pelserpb/r/Orchidaceae_Abdominea_minimiflora_57541.html Phytoimages, Jim Cootes, Orchidaceae Abdominea minimiflora]
- [http://www.les-orchidees-de-sam.ch/orchid/abdominea/ Les Orchidées de sam, Abdominea]
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Category:Orchids of the Philippines
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