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 Southern Mexico as a cool to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte at elevations of 1300 to 1900 meters where it blooms on a branched, densly many 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 ; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005