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 carrying2 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.
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
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