!Notylia barkeri Lindley 1838
Flower Closeup Photos by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Barker's Notylia [English Orchid Colletor in Mexico 1800's]
Flower Size 1/4" [.8 cm]
A nice epiphytic, miniature plant found on trees and shrubs in dense, humid forests as well as swamps and coffee ranches, that occurs at altitudes below 1600 meters from Southern Mexico south through Central America with clustered, ellipsoid, compressed pseudobulbs that are basally enveloped by non-foliaceous, scarious sheaths and carrying asingle, apical, coriaceous, erect or spreading, oblong-ligulate to broadly elliptic, obliquely tridentate at the rounded or subacute apically leaf that blooms, on an axillary, pendulous, racemose or rarely paniculate, to 12" [30 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with scarious bracts, in the spring with slightly fragrant flowers and does well mounted on wood or tree fern . It requires warm to cool conditions, partial shade and should have even year-round humid conditions. There has been talk of splitting this species into two distinct species [Notylia trisepal and Notylia tridachne] on the basis of the lateral sepals being free [as in the case of Notylia trisepala] or being joined [as in the case of Notylia tridachne].
Synonyms Notylia albida Klotsch 1851; Notylia bernoullii Schlechter 1918; Notylia bipartita Rchb.f 1854; Notylia brenesii Schlechter 1923; Notylia guatemalensis Schlechter 1918; Notylia guatemalensis S. Wats. 1887; Notylia multiflora Hooker 1825; Notylia pittieri Schlechter 1918; Notylia tamaulipensis Rchb.f 1860; Tridachne virens Liebm. ex Lindley 1852-3
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as N bipartita; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as N multiflora; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 145. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as N pittieri; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 249. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as N brenesi; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 8 1959 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 11 1982 drawing; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as N albida; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo as N pitteri; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006
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