Jumellea ambrensis H.Perrier 1938 Photos by © Senghas

Common Name The Ambre National Park Jumellea

Flower Size

Found in northern Madagascar in mossy forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect to oblique, slightly compressed stems enveloped completely by appressed, leaf bearing sheaths carrying 4 to 6, near apical, slightly rigid, very thick, semi-cylindrical, narrowly linear, often recurved, dark green leaves sprinkled with white dots that blooms in the summer on an erect, shorter than the leaves, peduncle to 1.6" [4 cm] long, below the center with 4 thick, rigid, heavily veined sheaths, bare above the center, single flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms

References

W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosseer 2007 drawing/photo fide;

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