Barkeria dorotheae Halb. 1976 Photo By Jay Pfahl

Another PlantPhoto by Weyman Bussey

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Common Name Dorothy's Barkeria [American Botanist in Mexico 20th cen]

Flower Size 1 1/4" to 1 1/2" [3 to 3.4 cm]

The second photo may not be correct, some think that it is B. whartonianum. A hot growing, miniature epiphyte or lithophyte that is found under dry scrub on the dry Pacific coast of Mexico near Jalisco in shaded to fully exposed positions among cacti and small trees at elevations of sealevel to 100 meters. 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 ocassionally branched inflorescence that should be kept intact as it can rebloom. The plant blooms on leafless fusiform pseudobulbs in it's deciduous state in the late fall and winter.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; An Introduction to the Orchids of Mexico Wiaqrd 1987; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1992;