Jumellea recta (Thouars) Schltr. 1915 GROUP 8 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Leaves and Flower

Plant and Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Brian O'Brien

Fragrant Part sunCool TO Warm LATE SpringEARLY Summer

Common Name The Bent Jumellea

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Reunion and Mauritus at the base of forests trees as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with elongate stems carrying 2 ranked, widely spaced, thick, leathery, ligulate, equally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular floral bract and carries a nocturnally fragrant flower.

Synonyms Aeranthes recta (Thouars) S.Moore in J.G.Baker 1877; Aeranthes recta var. recurva (Thouars) S.Moore 1877; Aerobion rectum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Aerobion recurvum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Angorchis recurva (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum rectum Thouars 1822 ; *Angraecum recurvum Thouars 1822; Epidorkis recta (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Jumellea recurva (Thouars) Schltr. 1915; Macroplectrum rectum (Thouars) Finet 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing fide; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Angraecum recurvum drawing fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 as J recurva; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 3 1987 postage stamp fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 2 2008 photo

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