Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

Common Name The Sheathed Jumellea

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Central to SE Madagascar as a small to medium sized epiphyte or lithophyte on rocky outcrops in forests with a thick stem carrying several, thick, unequally obtusely bilobed apically, lingulate leaves and blooms on a short, single flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 3 to 4 sheaths.

Synonyms Angorchis spathulata (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; *Angraecum spathulatum Ridl. 1885

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