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Jumellea fragrans (Thouars) Schltr., Orchideen: 609 (1914).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Angraecum fragrans Thouars, Hist. Orchid.: 54 (1822).
Aerobion fragrans (Thouars) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 716 (1826).
Aeranthes fragrans (Thouars) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 899 (1864).
Epidorchis fragrans (Thouars) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 660 (1891).
Description:
Plants with an upright stem, compressed (6-10 mm wide), covered by the rigid, traverse sheaths, leaves very numerous, lorate-linear (4.5-15 cm x 10-13 mm), slightly unequally bilobed-obtuse apically, thin and slightly rigid. fragrant when dried. Inflorescences amongst the leaves, and shorter than them; peduncle short (14-15 mm), completely covered by the 3 long, carinate, heavily veined, traversely rugose sheaths, the superior of which is longer (1cm.) and covering the base of the bract; bracts similar, but longer (15-17mm.) and obsuse; pedicel and ovary 5-6 cm long. Sepals and petals lanceolate-acute, 2 cm long. Labellum oblong-spatulate, acute, of the same length as the sepals, bare above; spur 3-3.5 cm. long, shorter than the ovary.
Habitat:
Epiphyte; The leaves having an odor of vanilla.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, hot to cool growing epiphyte.
Distribution:
Réunion
References:
Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 5 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006; WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 14.02-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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