Jumellea teretifolia Schltr. 1925 GROUP 1 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Common Name The Terete-Leafed Jumellea
Flower Size 1 3/8" to 1 5/8" [3 to 4 cm]
Found in eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen moss forests at elevations of 1300 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte without a stem but with 5 to 7 terete, subulate-subobtuse, rigid leaves, that blooms in the spring on a slender, 4 3/4" to 10" [12 to 25 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 3 narrowly appressed sheaths and tubular, shortly acuminate floral bracts.
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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
