Xylobium subintegrum C. Schweinf. 1944 Photo courtesy of Philippe Bernel

Through EARLY

Common Name The Almost Whole Rimmed Xylobium

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador to northern Peru in wet montane forests and elfin forests at elevations around 1700 to 1950 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with ellipsoid, striate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, stiff coriaceous, lanceolate, acute leaf with a terete petiole that blooms in the winter and very early spring on a basal, erect, 4" [10 cm] long, loosely 8 to 10 flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped basally by close, loose, sub-inflated, clear brown bracts and floral bracts that exceed the length of the ovaries. This speceis is distinguished from others by the unlobed, elliptic labellum and the low, oblong callus that is dentate apically and extended in the front with 5 verrucose ribs.

Differs from X bractescens by having a more recurved lip apex and much more defined calli

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 200 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as X bractescens photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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