Barkeria strophinx (Rchb.f.) Halb.1977 Photo by © Karl Senghas

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Common Name The Cone-Shaped Barkeria

Flower Size

Found in Michoacan state of Mexico along strams in tropical deciduous forests at elevations of 700 to 1100 meters as a small to medium szied, hot to warm growing epiphyte with stalked, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped by scarious sheaths and carrying erect, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous leaf that blooms in the winter and early spring on a terminal, 4" [10cm] long, paniculate, 5 to 30 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Barkeria naevosa subsp. strophinx (Rchb.f.) Halb.1974; *Epidendrum strophinx Rchb.f. 1876;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 as Epidendrum strophinx; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 530 Hagsater, Soto 2002 drawing fide;

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