Jumellea punctata H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 64 (1938).
Description:
Plants, upright 40-50 cm. tall stem slightly compressed. 5-6 mm. wide, covered by the finely punctate (with black) sheaths and thin on the dorsal side: leaves distichous, very rigid. narrowly linear (10-132 cm. x 9.13 mm), contracted pleated basally and with the terminal lobes obtuse and equal. Inflorescences in the lower leaves: peduncle 3 cm. long covered by the sheaths in the lower two-thirds, the superior sheath longer than the others, obtuse, very loose and tubular: bracts loose, 1 cm , long, obtuse and apiculate; pedicel 6 cm. long: flowers white, the divisions all opaque and with no visible veins except basally. Sepals lanceolate, attenuate gradually from the base to the acute apex, the median slightly shorter and wider (27 x 6 mm. than the lateral(30-32 x 4 mm.). Petals 2.6-2.7 cm. long. 5 mm. wide medially, acute and slightly attenuate toward the base from below the center. Labellum 3 cm. long. oval-lanceolate above the narrowed unguis. widest (1 cm.) above the middle, provided above with a very projecting basal keel; spur 10-11cm. long. cylindrical-obtuse: auricles transverse (1 x 3 mm.), obtuse on both edges; median tongue of the rostellum linear and short (0.8 mm.)
Habitat:
Epiphytes of trunks: in eastern forests, from 600 m. alt.: flowering: October.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, hot to warm growing epiphyt.
Distribution:
ENE. Madagascar
References:
Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1938/85; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans & Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 19.02-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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