Jumellea Explained

Jumellea is an orchid genus with 55 species native to Madagascar, the Comoros, the Mascarenes, and eastern Africa.[1] In horticulture, it is often abbreviated Jum.

Etymology

It is named after Henri Lucien Jumelle, a French botanist.[2]

Ecology

Pollination

Jumellea exhibits the typical adaptions to pollination by hawk moths. However, also auto-pollination is known to occur in Jumellea stenophylla.[3]

Phylogeny

Jumellea is proven to be monophyletic.[4]

Jumellea is the sister group to Aeranthes. Both genera together are the sister group to Angraecum:[5] [6]

Angraecum evolved into a separate lineage about 9.12 million years ago, and the genera Jumellea and Aeranthes separated about 9.55 million years ago. This means these genera date back to the Miocene.

Taxonomy

Species

Notes and References

  1. 29766-1

    . Jumellea Schltr. . 9 January 2022.
  2. Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen
  3. Micheneau, C., Fournel, J., Gauvin-Bialecki, A., & Pailler, T. (2008). "Auto-pollination in a long-spurred endemic orchid (Jumellea stenophylla) on Reunion Island (Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean)." Plant Systematics and Evolution, 272(1), 11-22.
  4. Andriananjamanantsoa, H. N. (2016). "Systématique évolutive et biogéographie de Angraecum (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) à Madagascar."
  5. Farminhão, J. N., Verlynde, S., Kaymak, E., Droissart, V., Simo-Droissart, M., Collobert, G., ... & Stévart, T. (2021). "Rapid radiation of angraecoids (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) in tropical Africa characterised by multiple karyotypic shifts under major environmental instability." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 159, 107105.
  6. Perez-Lamarque, B., Maliet, O., Pichon, B., Selosse, M. A., Martos, F., & Morlon, H. (2022). "Do closely related species interact with similar partners? Testing for phylogenetic signal in bipartite interaction networks." Peer Community Journal, 2.