Jumellea linearipetala H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 56 (1938).
Description:
Plants acaulis or with a short stem (2 cm at most) and thick; sheaths compressed, short and finely veined, cases 4-5, thick and short(4-7 x l cm). Inflorescences inserted on the stem, below the leaves; peduncle short (1.2-2 cm), nearly completed covered by the compressed, thick, nearly 8 mm long sheaths; bracts obtuse, 6-7 mm long: flowers white. Sepals lanceolate-linear (16-18 x 2.5-3 mm), obtuse and 7 veined, the laterals slightly wider than the median. Petals linear (17 x 1 mm) 3 veined. Labellum oblanceolate (2 cm x 4 mm), sometimes shorter and wider (17 x 6 mm), shortly acuminate apically, with 9 very visible veins; spur curved in front. 3 mm wide at its oriface, attenuate, then slightly swollen at the curve, attenuate-filiform to the apex, 10-12 mm long. Anther (1.5 mm), excised in front. Column 3 mm long and 2 mm thick, auricles wide (1.6 mm), subacute in front, rounded behind, median tongue of the rostellum acicular, equal to the auricles. Pedicel generally 5 mm long.
Habitat:
Epiphyte of trunks, flowering in February.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
N. & NW. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 19.02-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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