| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchidaceae | Encyclia rufa | Rufous Butterfly Orchid | Epiphytic or epilithic in maritime hammocks. | Ec. Peninsular FL; Bahamas. Last collected (apparently wild-growing) in 1926 by J.K. Small in a Brevard County hammock near Melbourne (Eau Gallie); nativity is uncertain. | |
| Orchidaceae | Encyclia tampensis | Florida Butterfly Orchid | 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 michauxiana. | N. FL peninsula (Levy, Putnam, and Flagler counties) south to s. FL; Bahamas; slightly disjunct on n. end of Cumberland Island, GA. |  |
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