Jumellea ibityana Schlechter 1925 GROUP 4 Photo courtesy of Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids

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Common Name The Mt. Ibity Jumellea [Mtn. in Madagascar]

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Central Madagascar as a small sized, cool to warm growing, monopodial lithophyte on quartz rocks from altitudes of 2000 meters with a stiff, slightly compressed stem carrying many, leathery, lingulate, quite stiff leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, 2 1/8" to 2 3/4" [5.5 to 7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with night-fragrant flowers.

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