Jumellea densefoliata Senghas 1964 GROUP 2 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Densely Leaved Jumellea

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in central Madagascar as a small sized, warm to cool growing, clump-forming lithophyte on rocks in dry forests or occasional epiphtye with a short stem carrying many, ligulate, leathery, distichous leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 1 1/5 to 2 2/5" [3 to 6 cm] long inflorescence carrying a single fragrant flower. This species and J pandurata are quite similar and may be synomonous and if so then J pandurata takes precedence.

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

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