Jumellea lignosa (Schltr.) Schltr. 1915 GROUP 6Photo by © Olaf Pronk and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Woody Jumellea

Flower Size 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm]

Found in the central and northern highlands of Madagascar on mossy rocks and lichen covered trees at elevations around 700 to 1500 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte or epiphyte in highland forests on moss and lichen covered trees with a branching, woody, rigid stem carrying short, 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a short, pedumcle enveloped completely by tough sheaths, single flowered inflorescence witha green, leathery floral bract overlapped by the upper most sheath and carrying large, thick, white flowers.

Synonyms *Angraecum lignosum Schltr. 1913; Jumellea lignosa subsp. acutissima H.Perrier 1938 [no latin descr.]; Jumellea lignosa subsp. acutissima H.Perrier ex Hermans 2007; Jumellea lignosa subsp. typica H.Perrier 1938; Jumellea lignosa var. latilabia H.Perrier 1938 [no latin descr]; Jumellea lignosa subsp. latilabia H.Perrier ex Hermans 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939; 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; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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