Jumellea maxillarioides (Ridl.) Schltr. 1926 GROUP 1

Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

Common Name The Maxillaria-Like Jumellea

Flower Size 1 3/4" [4.5 cm]

Found in central and southeastern Madagascar at elevations of 1000 to 2100 meters as a cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte among rocks with no to a very short stem carrying many, leathery, but not stiff, loriform, leaves that are bilobed-rounded apically and blooms in the summer on several at one time, basal, peduncle .4" [1 cm] long, provided basally and enveloped by 5, narrowly appressed, shortly cuspidate sheaths, 4" [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Angorchis maxillarioides (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; *Angraecum maxillarioides Ridl. 1885