Jumellea rossii Senghas, Orchidee (Hamburg) 18: 244 (1967).
Description:
Plant erect with straight stems rooting at the base, up to 25 cm tall. Leaves in 2 rows, well spaced, ligulate-lanceolate, unequally bilobed at the apex, with rounded lobes, to 6 cm long, 1.3 cm wide. Inflorescence arising opposite the leaf base or amongst old leaf sheaths below the leaves, sometimes successively from the same point; peduncle short, covered by 3 green sheaths; bract green, 8-9 mm long; pedicel with ovary curved, 3-4 cm long. Flowers white, nodding; dorsal sepal triangular-lanceolate, straight or reflexed, 15-17 mm long, 4.5-5.5 mm wide; lateral sepals spreading, obliquely lanceolate, 15-17 mm long, 4 mm wide; petals similar but narrower; lip narrowly rhomboid, with an upright keel in the narrow basal part, 6 mm long, in total 16-18 mm long, 7 mm wide; spur curved, aligned with the ovary, 14-17 mm long.
Habitat:
Epiphyte in cloud forest; 1600 m.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Notes:
This species is easily recognised by the nodding flowers with a short, curved spur.
Distribution:
Mascarenes
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 19.02-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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