Jumellea recta (Thouars) Schltr. 1915 GROUP 8 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Plant and Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Brian O'Brien
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Common Name The Bent Jumellea
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Reunion and Mauritus at the base of forests trees as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with elongate stems carrying 2 ranked, widely spaced, thick, leathery, ligulate, equally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular floral bract and carries a nocturnally fragrant flower.
Synonyms Aeranthes recta (Thouars) S.Moore in J.G.Baker 1877; Aeranthes recta var. recurva (Thouars) S.Moore 1877; Aerobion rectum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Aerobion recurvum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Angorchis recurva (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum rectum Thouars 1822 ; *Angraecum recurvum Thouars 1822; Epidorchis recta (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Jumellea recurva (Thouars) Schltr. 1915; Macroplectrum rectum (Thouars) Finet 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 2 2008 photo
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