Xylobium serratum D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001

TYPE Drawing by © Alcantara, Bennett & Dodson

Common Name The Serrated Xylobium [refers to the saw toothed veins on the inner surface of the lip]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Pasco department of Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 1525 meters as a medium sized, cool growing caespitose epiphyte or terrestrial with narrowly ovoid, lightly sulcate with age pseudobulbs mostly enveloped by a large scarious sheath and carrying 2 apical, linear-lanceolate, long acuminate-tapered, attenuate below into the channeled petiolate base leaves taht blooms in the winter on a basal, short, peduncle to 2.8" [7 cm] long, mostly concealed by 4, close, distichous, bracts, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with opaque yellow flowers with the column and lateral lobes of the lip streaked with purplish brown and the mid lobe purplish brown.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 799 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014

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