Jumellea walleri (Rolfe) la Croix 2000

Photo courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

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Common Name The Thread-Like Jumellea [refers to the thin lip]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Kenya to South Africa in riverine forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with a woody stem carrying to 16, distichous, strap-shaped, folded, thick and leathery, obtusely bilobed apically, dark green leaves and blooms on an axillary, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence occuring in the summer to early fall with glisteningly white flowers that smell of violets and fade to an apricot color in time. This species for years has been known as J filicornoides but with the recent work by Isabel La Croix, Mystacidium walleri the basionym for Jumellea walleri was found to precede Angraecum filiconoides the basionym for Jumellea filiconoides therefore Jumellea walleri takes precedence.

Synonyms Angraecum filicornoides De Wild. 1904; Jumellea filicornoides (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; *Mystacidium walleri Rolfe 1897;