Dendrophylax barrettiae Fawc. & Rendle 1909 Photo by © Tuang Luong and His Terra Gallery Website

Common Name Barrett's Dendrophylax - Barrett's Ghost Orchid

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica at elevations of sea level to 1800 meters as a minaiture sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with flattened grey-green roots that blooms in the summer through fall on to 7, racemose, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with a single non resupinate, fragrant flower open at any one time

Synonyms Campylocentrum ariza-juliae Ames 1938

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Jamaica Tobisch & Gloudon 1995; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as Campylocentrum ariza-juliae; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 10 2006 photo; Orquideas de la Republica Dominicana and Haiti Fernandez 2007

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