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Orchid Species: Barkeria spectabilis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Barkeria spectabilis is an orchid species identified by Bateman ex Lindl. in 1842.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador where it grows as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte in dry areas on oak trees and bushes at elevations of 1300-3500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador where it grows as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte in dry areas on oak trees and bushes at elevations of 1300-3500 meters with fusiform-cylindrical, erect pseudobulbs carrying ovate to linear-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, acute to acuminate leaves. It flowers in the summer on a few to many flowered, apical, 10 [25 cm] long, racemose or paniculate inflorescence arising on a newly arising pseudobulb with short-lived non-fragrant flowers that open in succession.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/4 to 3 inches [4 to 8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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