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Orchid Species: Gomesa barkeri
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Gomesa barkeri is an orchid species identified by (Hook.) Rolfe in 1901.
ORIGIN: Found in Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Parana', Santa Catarina and Minas Gerais states of Brazil in the cooler mountains.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with narrowly oblong, erect to erect spreading, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 4 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect to erect spreading, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, tapering below into the distinct petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an axillary, 6 to 10 [15 to 20 cm] long, arching, slightly compressed, many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 x 0.4 inches [0.2 cm x 1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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