Family: Orchidaceae
Group: Monocot
Substrate:
Epiphyte
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the Greater Antilles, Mexico, Central America and northern South America. In the Greater Antilles, known from Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
NatureServe Global Status:
Vulnerable
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Presumed Extirpated or Extinct
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Presumed Extirpated or Extinct in the Wild
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: A rare epiphytic orchid in southeastern Florida in Miami-Dade County. It was first collected in the United States in 1915 by John Kunkel Small and Charles A. Mosier in Nixon-Lewis Hammock west of Homestead; it was heavily collected and extirpated in the wild by 1963 (Gann et al. 2002). See IRC’s book
Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002, page 63) and IRC's report
Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015, page 101).
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: See also the North American Orchid Conservation Center's
Go Orchids website.
