Jumellea arborescens H. Perrier 1938 GROUP 6

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Side View Of Flower Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Rod Rice and Oasis the Journal

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Common Name The Tree-Like Jumellea

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in central Madagascar in mossy forests on tree trunks at elevations around 1400 meters as a giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an elongate stem carrying in the apical half, to 20, fairly stiff, elliptic-oblong, bilobed apically, basally conduplicate leaves blooming on a short, axillary, erect, single flowered inflorescence enveloped below the middle by 3 to 4 loose sheaths.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006