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Barkeria spectabilis Bateman ex Lindley 1842 Photo by Jay Pfahl ©

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz and plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden ©

Common Name The Spectacular Barkeria

Flower Size 1 /34" to 3" [4 to 8 cm]

Found in Southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador where it grows as a small sized epiphyte or lithophyte in dry areas on oak trees and bushes at elevations of 1300-3500 meters with fusiform-cylindrical, erect pseudobulbs carrying ovate to linear-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, acute to acuminate leaves. It is a warm to cool growing orchid and likes to be mounted on wood branches with moderate shade and even watering while growing and a drier winter rest after leaf drop. It flowers in the summer on a few to many flowered, apical, 10" [25 cm] long, racemose or paniculate inflorescence arising on a newly arising pseudobulb with short-lived non-fragrant flowers that open in succession.

Synonyms Barkeria lindleyanan ssps. spectabile [Batem ex Lindl.] Rchb.f 1862; Epidendrum spectabile (Bateman ex Lindl.) Rchb. f. ex Müll. Berol. 1862

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 2 1980 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 7 1982 photo; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1992; Minature Orchids Northen 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Hamer 1982; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Hamer 1974; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 6 1987 photo; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids Fanfani & Rossi 1988; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 529 Hagsater, Soto 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 6 2004/5 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 3 2005 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 2 2007 photo

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