Barkeria naevosa (Lindl.) Schltr. 1923 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Veined Barkeria

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.5 cm]

Found as a miniature to small sized, as a hot to warm growing epiphyte in Guerrerro, and Oaxaca states of Mexico on the Pacific coast at elevations of sea level to 1600 meters with thick, fleshy roots, an abbreviated rhizome giving rise to fusiform, 5 to 7 noded pseudobulbs enveloped completely by close-fitting, silver-grey sheaths and carrying 2 to 6, distichous, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, conduplicate and articulate to the sheaths below, green spotted purple leaves that blooms on an erect 2.4 to 14" [6 to 35 cm] long, apical, many flowered inflorescence that can have additional racemes arising after the original racememe has finished occuring in the late fall, winter and early spring and carrying strongly fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Barkeria chinense ssp naevosa [Lindley] Thien 1970; Epidendrum chinense var naevosa {lindl.] L. Wms. 1951; *Epidendrum naevosum Lindl. 1853

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 2 1980 photo; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1980; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Icones Orchidacearum 10 plate 1004 Hagsater & Soto 2008

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