Encyclia tampensis (Lindley) Small. Common name: Florida Butterfly Orchid. Phenology: May-Sep (-Apr). Habitat: Epiphytic on a wide variety of trees, and in a wide variety of hammocks, pine flatwoods, sloughs, strands, swamps, and other mesic to wet habitats. Often abundant on the limbs of Quercus virginiana with Pleopeltis. Distribution: N. FL peninsula (Levy, Putnam, and Flagler counties) south to s. FL; slightly disjunct on n. end of Cumberland Island, GA; Bahamas.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Bah, FNA26, K4, NS, POWO, S, WH3, WI, Luer (1975); = Epidendrum tampense Lindl. — S13, Brown (2002), Correll (1950). Basionym: Epidendrum tampense Lindl. 1847
Links to other floras: = Encyclia tampensis - FNA26
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Heliophily ⓘ: 5
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