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Jumellea intricata H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 62 (1938).
Description:
Plants with numerous stems, flat or upright, 20 60 cm. long, sheaths heavily veined and slightly traversely rugose: cases lingulate-linear (4-ll cm. x 5-14 mm.), contracted-pleated basally, terminal lobes obtuse and equal, less numerous (2-7) per stem. lnflorescence below the leaves, 10 cm. long generally; peduncle 4cm. long, thin. clad in the lower third with 5 tubular sheaths, the rest bare: bracts loose. obtuse. 7-9 mm long: flowers white, start to finish: pedicel 4-4.5 cm. long. Sepals lanceolate (17-20 x 35- 4 mm) attenuate from the base to the acute apex. Petals lanceolate-linear (17 x 2.5 mm.), acute and 4 veined. Labellum linguiform, 2 cm. long and 6 mm. wide medially, attenuate lengthwise and longly apiculate, provided above and near the base with a projecting keel. 11 veined: spur 10 cm. long, attenuate from the wide oriface to the obtuse apex. Anther excised apically, the margins enlarged and acute: pollina slightly transverse. 1,5 mm wide: cauda thin and retracted: bandeletts deltoid. hyaline, l.6 mm. wide, obtuse behind, subacute in front: median tongue of the rostellum linear, half as long as the auricles; rear margin of the clinandrium slightly denticulate at the point of insertion of the anther.
Habitat:
Epiphyte of trunks, growing in large, dense tufts, in lichen forests from 2000 m. alt.: flowering: January.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, cool growing epiphtye.
Distribution:
N. & EC. Madagascar
References:
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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