Jumellea porrigens Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 300 (1925).
Description:
Plants 12-30 cm tall, stem upright, cylindrical (10-12 mm in diameter) to about 20 cm long at most densely leafy. Leaves, linear or linear-lingulate (5-8 cm x 6-9 mm). Inflorescences 7-8 cm long; peduncle short (2.5 cm), covered by the 3 sheaths the longest of which is about 8 mm long; bracts tubular, apiculate, nearly a fourth a long an the pedicel. Sepals lingulate, obtuse and 16 mm long. Petals linear and sub obtuse, longer than the sepals, but narrow and thinner. Labellum oblanceolate spatulate and panduriform, slightly enlarged above the base, compressed medially and then enlarged (4 mm) toward the apical third; provided basally with a short costa; spur pendent. filiform, 10-11 cm long. Column to nearly 3 mm tall. Pedicel 4.5-5cm long. Capsule fusiform, cylindrical, 4.5cm long without the pedicel and 7mm in diameter.
Habitat:
Epiphyte in lichen forests, from 2000 m alt.: flowering in January.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
N. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 19.02-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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