!Barkeria uniflora (La Llave & Lex.) Dressler & Halb. 1977 Photo Courtesy of © Allen Black

Barkeria elegans Photo by Lourens Grobler ©

Inflorescence Photo Courtesy of Robert Weyman Bussey

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Common Name Single-flowered Barkeria

Flower Size 2 3/4" [5.6 cm]

This small epiphyte from southern Mexico is found on trees and shrubs along dry creekbeds and blooms on an apical, to 12" [30 cm] long, racemose several flowered inflorescence that occurs in the fall and winter in cultivations and late spring in nature. This is the type species for the genus.

Synonyms Barkeria elegans Knowles & Westcott 1838; Epidendrum elegans [Knowles & Westcott] Rchb.f 1862; *Pachyphyllum uniflorum La LLave & Lex. 1825

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985 as Barkeria elegans; Minature Orchids Northen 1980 as Barkeria elegans; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1993 as Barkeria elegans; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1982 as Epidendrum elegans; Illustrated Encyclopoedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982 as Barkeria elegans; An Introduction to the Orchids Of Mexico Wiard 1987 as Barkeria elegans