Xylobium leontoglossum (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1889
Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Cundinamarca Colombia
Photo by © Andreas Philipp
Immature Plant in situ Valle de Cocora Quindio Colombia Elevation 2400 to 2800 meters
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Common Name The Lion's Tongue Xylobium
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 2000 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or occasional terrestrial with close set, ovoid-ellipsoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, lanceolate-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, sulcate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a lateral, semi-erect, 15" [37.5 cm] long, racemose, rather loosely several to many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb with 3 to 4 loose, tubular, remote bracts and very small floral bracts.
Synonyms *Maxillaria leontoglossa Rchb. f. 1855; Xylobium gracile Schltr. 1921; Xylobium squalens var. gracile (Schltr.) C. Schweinf. 1944
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as X gracile; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:83 Schlechter 1924; Flora de VenezuelaVolumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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