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Common Name Waller's Jumellea [English Missionary in East Africa 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Natal and Victoria states of South Africa in riverine forests at elevations of 600 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with a woody stem carrying up to 16, distichous, strap-shaped, folded, thick and leathery, obtusely bilobed apically, dark green leaves and blooms on an axillary, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence occuring in the summer to early fall with glisteningly white flowers that smell of violets and fade to an apricot color in time.

This species for years has been known as J filicornoides but with the recent work by Isabel La Croix, Mystacidium walleri [1897], the basionym for Jumellea walleri, was found to precede Angraecum filiconoides [1918], the basionym for Jumellea filiconoides, therefore Jumellea walleri takes precedence.

Synonyms Angraecum filicornoides De Wild. 1904; Jumellea filicornoides (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; *Mystacidium walleri Rolfe 1897;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Epiphytic Orchids of Malawi Morris 1970 as J filicornioides ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 aa A filicornioides photo good; Malawi Orchids Vol 1 La Croix 1983 as J filicornioides drawing fide; AOS Bulletin No 63 No 9 1994 photo as J filicornioides; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 as J filicornioides ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 as Jumellea filicornioides photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998 as Jumellea filicornoides; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as J filicornoides photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 # 19 1994 as J filicornioides photo fide; The Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 as J filicornoides photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 as J filicornoides photo/drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 as J filicornoides photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008;

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