Jumellea pandurata Schltr. 1916 GROUP 6
Side View of Flower Photo courtesy of Ian Chung
Common Name The Lute Shaped Jumellea
Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]
Found in Madagascar on basalt rocks at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing lithphyte or epiphyte with an erect stem carrying numerous, ligulate, coriaceous, rigid leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, [7 to 8 cm] long, 1 to few flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 2 to 3 sheaths. This species and J densifoliata are quite similar and may be synomonous and if so then this name J panduata takes precedence as it was described earlier.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
