Barkeria skinneri (Bateman ex Lindl.) A. Rich. & Galeotti 1844 Photo Courtesy of ©Allen Black.

Street Vendor In Antigua Guatemala Photo Courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name Skinner's Barkeria [English Plant collector 1800's]

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

Found in Chiapas state of Mexico and NW Guatemala as a slender, medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and lithophyte on rocks at elevations of 900 to 1900 meters occuring mostly on oak trees in tropical to deciduous rainforests with clustered, fusiform-cylindric stems subtended by several scarious leaf sheaths and carrying several, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, distichous, fleshy leaves and blooms in the fall to mid-winter on an erect, terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, racemose to paniculate, few to many flowered, long-lived inflorescence enveloped by long, imbricate, scarious sheaths.

Synonyms Barkeria skinneri var major Paxton 1849; Dothiolophis purpurea Raf. 1838; Epidendrum fuschii Regel 1850; *Epidendrum skinneri Bateman ex Lindl. 1836; Epidendrum skinneri var superbum Warner 1862-4

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Minature Orchids Northen 1980; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987 as Epidendrum skinerii; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 528 Hagsater, Soto 2002