Xylobium elongatum (Lindl. & Paxton) Hemsl. 1884 Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Lip Detail Photo Alexander Reynolds and theINVENTORY OF THE VASCULAR PLANTS OF MAQUIPUCUNA, ECUADOR Website

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Jim Hamilton

Part shade Hotto Cool Winter THROUGH Summer

Common Name The Elongate Xylobium

Flower Size 1 2/5" [3.5 cm]

Found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador as a large sized, epiphyte or lithophyte in montane rainforests at elevations of 600 to 1700 meters with a subcylindric, slender, elongated pseudobulb with 2 apical, plicate, subcoriaceous, elliptic, acute to acuminate leaves with a short channeled petiole that blooms in the winter through summer on a basal, erect to erect-arcuate, to 8" [20 cm] long, several to many [8 to 15] flowered, racemose inflorescence with 3 to 7 clasping, scarious, laneolate or ovate bracts and linear-lanceolate, scaroius, attenuate floral bracts that are as large or larger than the ovary, carrying the fleshy flowers at mid pseudobulb height.

Synonyms *Maxillaria elongata Lindl. & Paxton 1852-3

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 drawing fide; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 66. Panama Schlechter 1922; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 355 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1196 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 100 Hagsater and Salazar 1990 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 1 1994 photo; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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