Jumellea ambrensis H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 61 (1938).
Description:
Plants with many stem, 5-25 cm. long, erect or oblique. slightly compressed (nearly 5 mm. wide), entirely covered by the sheaths. appressed and generally 1cm. long. bearing 4-6 leaves near the apex: leaves slightly rigid, very thick. Semi-cylindrical, narrowly linear (15-23 cm. x 5 mm.). often recurved, of a dark green and sprinkled with many small spots of white. Inflorescences hearing sheaths, shorter than the leaves: peduncle 4 cm. long, bearing below the center 4, thick, rigid, heavily veined sheaths, the longest of which is 1,5 cm, long and bare above the center: bracts tubular, obtuse, generally 1.7cm. long, flowers white, very thick and of average size. Sepals lanceolate, attenuate gradually from the bane to the obtuse apex, 4.5-5 mm. wide, the median 12 cm.) shorter than the laterals (2.5 cm.). Petals narrowly lanceolate-linear (2 cm. x 2.5 mm.) obviously attenuate from the lower third to the apex. Labellum lanceolate (2 cm. x 8 mm.) medially. abruptly enlarged medially above the long. narrow unguis. attenuate gradually to the acule apex; spur elongated (12 cm.). cylindrical-filiform and slightly attenuate front the oriface to the apex. Anther (2 mm.) saddle shaped. Column 3.5-4 mm. tall. arms thick and short: auricies nearly square; median tooth of the rostellum nearly absent.
Habitat:
Epiphyte. In mossy forests. front 1000 m. alt.: flowering: February.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
N. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 14.02-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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