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 longer than the ovaries floral bracts . This species 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; Xylobium hypocritum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1912 photo ok; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as X bractescens photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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