Jumellea majalis (Schltr.) Schltr. 1915

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Common Name The May Blooming Jumellea

Flower Size

Found in northern and northeastern Madagascar in lichen forests at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a slender, branching, pendent, densely leafy stem carrying many, 2 ranked, linear-ligulate, bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on axillary, peduncle completely enveloped by 4 bracts, upper ones longer than the lower, 1.6" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying small, white flowers.

Synonyms *Angraecum majale Schltr. 1913

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; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009

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