Xylobium corrugatum (Lindl.) Rolfe 1889 Photo By © Andrea Niessen and her Orquideas del Valle Website

Another Angle Photo By © Arturo Carillo

FragranceFull shadeWarm to Cool LATER Winter and Again EARLY Summer Summer

Common Name The Corrugatued Xylobium [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia and Venezuela in wet premontane forests at elevations around 1600 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid to narrowly ovoid, slighly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apicall erect, plicate, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later winter and again in the early summer on a basal, erect to ascending, racemose, few flowered, 5" [12.5 cm] long inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms *Maxillaria corrugata Lindl. 1844

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide

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