Jumellea papangensis H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 57 (1938).
Description:
Plants 15-20 cm tall, stem cylindrical (5-6 cm), sheaths traversely rugose; leaves 3-7, loriform (5- 8 cm x 5-8 mm,), contracted-pleated toward the base, terminal lobes obtuse and unequal. Inflorescences of the genus, peduncle short (1-1.2 cm), covered by the 3-4 very compressed obtuse sheaths, the longest of which is 1-1.2 cm long and covers the base of the bract also; bracts longer than the superior sheath (1.7- 2 cm), but similar: pedicel very thin, 5-5.5 cm long. Median sepal lanceolate (14 x 4.5 mm), attenuate obtuse and with 5 obsolete veins, the median of which projects in a dorsal ked; lateral sepals longer, slightly sickle shaped, narrow and joined to the petals and the arms or the column near the base, like joints above, with the apex in a short, subacute angle, with 5 very visible angles. Petals lanceolate-acute (2 cm x 3 mm), 5 veined. Labellum 1.5-1 .8 cm long, elongated and narrow above the unguis, enlarged in a wide (9 mm) limbus, apiculate apically; veins all joining in the unguis: upper surface provided with a projecting keel below the center; spur filiform, 13 cm long. Anther 2.2 mm long and nearly as wide, indented and slightly swollen in an obtuse bump behind, widely excised in front, with both edges acute; pollina white, oval, with their caudas retracted; bandeletts white, triangular. Column 4 mm tall; tooth of the rostellum acicular, shorter than half the auricles.
Habitat:
?
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
C. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 19.02-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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