Family: Orchidaceae
Group: Monocot
Substrate:
Epiphyte
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America.
Map of Florida Locations
NatureServe Global Status:
Secure
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Possibly 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: Ranked as presumed extirpated in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; pp 89-90) based on a single 1916 collection from a hammock south of Coot Bay in what in now Everglades National Park. No new records are known.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: See also, IRC’s report
Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015), page 113.
