Jumellea sagittata H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 52 (1938).
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Angraecum gracilipes Rolfe, Bot. Mag. 144: t. 8758 (1918).
Description:
Plants acaulis, entourned basally with very fine fibers, blackish and very abundant; leaves 5-6, loriform (25-30 x 3-3.5 cm), obtuse and very contracted-pleated basally, dorsal veins very projecting, nearly sharp. Inflorescences pendent, 2-3 below the leaves; peduncle thin, 7-9 cm long, covered basally with 4-5 heavy, basal sheaths, being about 1cm. long, bearing also above the center a 8-12 mm long, scarious-brownish sheath, narrowly tubular and 20 veined; bracts green, obtuse and wide, 1cm long; flowers white, slightly furfuraceous exteriorly; pedicel twice as wide as the peduncle. Median sepal lanceolate (3 x 0.8 cm), attenuate in the lower third and acute apically; lateral sepals longer and narrower than the median (4 x 0.6 cm), widely joined between their base and their front face. Petals similar to the median sepal. Labellum lanceolate (3.6-4 x 1.8-2cm), abruptly enlarged-sub auriculate above the unguis, then attenuate to the acute apex, provided on the upper surface, below the center with a projecting keel, spur cylindrical, slightly compressed toward the apex, 5-6 cm long. Anther small, 2 mm excised apically; pollina round, small, cauda retracted; bandeletts cuneiform, 12 mm long. Column thick (4 x 3 mm); auricles wider than long (2 x 3 mm), obtuse on both sides; median tooth of the rostellum short (0.5 mm) and acute. Pedicel 7.7.5 cm. long.
Habitat:
Epiphytes of trunks, in mossy forest from 1400 m alt., flowering in January.
Distribution:
EC. Madagascar
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