Jumellea stenoglossa H.Perrier 1951 GROUP 6

Photo by © A Muller and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Peyrot's Jumellea [French botanist in Madagascar 1900's]

Flower Size 1.84" [4.6 cm]

Found in southeastern Madagascar in coastal forests at elevations of 20 to 500 meters as a hot growing epiphyte with a creeping stem carrying 2 ranked, oblong-lanceolate, basally folded leaves a that blooms in the summer on a peduncle half enveloped by 3 to 4 sheaths, .6 to 1.8" [1.5 to 4.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying a white flower

Synonyms Jumellea facilorchis M.A.Clem. 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A Recheche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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