Jumellea rigida Schltr. 1925 GROUP 6 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Rigid Jumellea

Flower Size 1.2" [ cm]

Found in Madagascar in damp forests at elevations around 1500 to 2400 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte and occasional epiphyte with a robust erect stem carrying 8 to 10, ligulate, unequally bilobed apically, conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary or through old leaf sheaths, 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a few basal sheaths and a thin, tubular floral bract.

Synonyms Jumellea rigida var. altigena Schltr. 1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1938/85; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans & Campbell 2006