Barkeria dorotheae Halb. 1976
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Common Name Dorothy's Barkeria [American Botanist in Mexico 20th century]
Flower Size 1 1/4" to 1 1/2" [3 to 3.4 cm]
Found on the dry Pacific coast of Mexico near Jalisco under dry scrub in shaded to fully exposed positions among cacti and small trees at elevations of sealevel to 100 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, epiphyte or lithophyte that is . They are best grown mounted on small bark covered branches, given water only while in growth and it will bloom in the late fall and winter, with an apical, up to 2'8" [80 cm] long, many flowered, racemose to occasionally branched inflorescence that should be kept intact as it can rebloom during later seasons. The plant blooms in the late fall and winter on leafless, fusiform pseudobulbs in it's deciduous state.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 44 no 2 1980 photo fide; Miniature Orchids Northern 1980; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 7 1982 photo fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; An Introduction to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1992; Orchid Digest Vol 57 Vol 4 1993 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 2 1995; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 1998; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 6 2004/5 photo; Orchids of Mexico, Hagsater, Soto, Salazar etal 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #9 2017 photo fide;
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