Jumellea gracilipes Schltr. 1922 GROUP 2 Photo courtesy of Carl Withner

FragrancePart shadeCoolTo WarmSpring THROUGH Summer

Common Name The Graceful Column Foot Jumellea

Flower Size 1.2" [3cm]

Found in central Madagascar in mossy forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte in moss forests on rotten trees with a stem carrying 5 to 7, stiff, ligulate, folded, dark green, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that form a fan-shape towards the apex of the stem and blooms in the spring through summer on an axillary, short inflorescence carrying a single, fragrant flower.

Synonyms Jumellea ambongensis Schltr. 1925; Jumellea exilipes Schltr. 1925; Jumellea imerinensis Schltr. 1925; Jumellea unguicularis Schltr. 1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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