Jumellea flavescens H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 63 (1938).
Description:
Plants branched, stem flattened, slightly compressed (5 mm wide), covered by the striate-veined sheaths, bearing 5-6 apical leaves, widely linear 5-8.5 x 1-1.2 cm), terminal lobes nearly equal. Inflorescences below the leaves; peduncle thin, 2.2.5 cm long, clad basally with brownish sheaths. bare above, bracts obtuse, 5 mm long, pedicel 4.5-5 cm long, flowers white, turning yellowish, Sepals lanceolate (17- 18 x 5 mm) attenuate from the base to the acute apex and 5 veined. Petals slightly shorter (15-16 mm) than the sepals, with the veins lateral, like those of the sepals, bifurcated near the base. Labellum 2 cm long, oblanceolate-acute above the unguis, 7-8 mm wide above the middle and 10 veined; spur 10-12 cm long Anther (1.6 mm) excised apically, the sides of the notch provided with an acute tooth: pollina slightly obovate, bandelett sub rectangular, coalescent. Column 3.5-4 mm tall, green when live, remaining greenish when dried: auricles sub square (2 mm), median tongue of the rostellum acicular, half as long as the auricles.
Habitat:
Epiphytes of trunks: in mossy forest from 1200 m alt.: flowering in January.
Distribution:
N. & C. Madagascar
