Xylobium ornatum (Klotzsch) Rolfe 1912 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name The Ornate Xylobium
Flower Size 1.25" [3.1 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru as a medium sized epiphyte with oblong-ovoid, 5 to 8 grooved pseudobulbs acrrying 2, apical, plicate, oblong, acute, gradually cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, robust, 6" [15 cm] long, 20 to 24 flowered, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, long-acuminate, black puntulate floral bracts and carrying flowers that are large for the genus.
Synonyms *Maxillaria ornata Klotzsch 1855; Xylobium latilabium C.Schweinf. 1952
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 3 Schweinfurth 1960 as X latilabium; Orchids of Peru Vol 3 Schweinfurth 1960; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 399 Bennett & Christenson 1995 as X latilabium drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo ok; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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