Xylobium colleyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) Rolfe 1890

Plant and Flowres Photos By Dalton Holland Baptista and the Orchidstudium Webstite

Another Inflorescence? not Photo courtesy of of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name Colley's Xylobium [English ORchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guaina, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil as a medium sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphytic orchid occurring in lowland rainforest and riverine areas at altitudes of 200 to 1000 meters with nearly spherical, smooth pseudobulbs subtended by evanescent, nonfoliaceous sheaths and has 2 apical, obovate, obtuse, thick, grey-green, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaves that are heavily veined on the underside and blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, 3/4" [2 cm] long, densely 8 to 10 flowered, bracteate, subcapitate racemose inflorescence, arising on newly maturing and mature pseudobulb, that is shorter than the pseudobulb and has a foul smelling, carrion fly attracting, stench akin to rotting meat. Can't wait to go get one, yum.

Synonyms Maxillaria brachypus Rchb.f. 1852; *Maxillaria colleyi Batem. ex Lindl. 1839; Maxillaria rebellis Rchb. f. 1853-4; Petronia regia Barb Rodr; Xylobium brachypus (Rchb.f.) Hemsl. 1884; Xylobium rebelle (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Maxillaria rebellis; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Maxillaria rebellis; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 600 Dodson 1989 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids VOl 4 COS 1992 photo hmm; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 198 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drrawing ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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