Barkeria scandens (La Llave & Lex.) Dressler & Halb 1977 Photo courtesy of Allen Black Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name Scandent Barkeria

Flower Size 1 1/4" to 2" [3 to 5 cm]

Found in Michoacan, Guerrerro, and Oaxaca states of Mexico in subtropical scrub, dry oak forests and moist scrub meters as a small to large sized, cool to warm growing twig epiphyte or lithophyte at elevations of 1000 to 1900 meters with sympodially ascending, cylindrical stems enveloped by close fitting sheaths and carrying 3 to 8, distichous, deciduous, fleshy, ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, acute to subacute, obtuse-subcordate below, green suffused with purple, carinate beneath leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, racemose, very thin, subterete, 4 to 22" [10 to 55 cm] long, densly 2 to 18 flowered inflorescence and grows best mounted on slabs of cork or treefern.

Synonyms Barkeria cyclotella Rchb.f Gard. 1880; Barkeria lindleyana var. cyclotella [Rchb.f] Thein 1970; Epidendrum cyclotellum Rchb. f.; Epidendrum lindleyana var cyclotellum [Rchb.f] Veitch 1890; *Pachyphyllum scandens La LLave & Lex. 1825

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 2 1980 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 6 1987 photo; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 6 2004/5 photo; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1006 Hagsater & Soto 2008

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