Jejewoodia
Jejewoodia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae. It is native to Borneo.
Description
Epiphytic herbs. Has a stem that grows up to about long which is simple or branching. It has rooting at base and is leafy. The leaves are distichous, ensiform and flattened. The inflorescence is lateral, axillary and borne from upper portion of stems. It is one-flowered, sometimes four or five flowers open simultaneously in succession per stem. The floral bracts are less than 1/8 the length of pedicel and brownish in colour. The flowers are up to 1 cm in diameter and usually opening widely. The sepals and petals are white, less often yellow or greenish yellow. The labellum is white, sometimes with a yellow central patch at base of mid-lobe. The sepals and petals are free and spreading. The sepals are narrowly elliptic and acute in shape. The petals are broadly elliptic and obtuse or narrowly oblong and subacute in shape. The labellum is tri-lobed, pandurate, spurred or slightly saccate. It is constricted near middle and hypochile is canaliculate and thickened at the margins. The margins are erect, epichile is transversely elliptic and emarginate with a broadly triangular tooth in sinus, or rounded and thick. The spur is narrow and shallowly conical, with an entrance glabrous. The column foot is absent. The anther is apically elongated, with 4 pollinia and ovoid, unequal, viscidium transversely elliptic, the stipe is linear. The rostellum is finger-like.Taxonomy
The genus name of Jejewoodia is in honour of Jeffrey James Wood, an English botanist at Kew Gardens and a specialist in orchids.It was first described and published in Fragm. Florist. Geobot., Suppl. Vol.3 on page 135 in 1995.
Known species
According to Kew:- Jejewoodia crockerensis
- Jejewoodia jiewhoei
- Jejewoodia jongirii
- Jejewoodia linusii
- Jejewoodia longicalcarata
- ''Jejewoodia rimauensis''