Jumellea cyrtoceras Schltr. 1918 GROUP 3

Photo by Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Bent-Horn Carrying Jumellea

Flower Size .6" [1.5 mm] long

Found in eastern Madagascar in forests at elevations of 1000 to 1100 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect, cylindrical stem carrying many, leathery, ligulate leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an axillary, short, peduncle .4 to .52" [1 to 1.3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by a few sheaths and obtuse bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans & Campbell 2006 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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