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Common Name The Transparent Jumellea

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in central Madagascar in moss forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a sometimes branching, slightly compressed stem carrying 5 to 7 stiff, linear, short, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring on a basal, shorter inflorescence enveloped completely by 3 to 4 thick, rigid, long-lasting sheaths and has similar floral bracts that cover a third of the pedicel that in turn carries a small flower.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006