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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

You may enjoy reading Orchids of the Francis Marion National Forest by Jim Fowler.

Learn more about Green-fly Orchid from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

The northernmost epiphytic orchid: It is locally rather common, but rarely seen as it occurs primarily in blackwater swamps, on upper limbs of trees, typically mixed with Pleopeltis. Two varieties are sometimes recognized: var. conopseum, with green or yellow flowers fragrant during the day, and var. mexicanum, with yellow flowers with bronze and green tints fragrant at night. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).

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INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Epidendrum magnoliae var. magnoliae   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Epidendrum conopseum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Epidendrum magnoliae

INCLUDING Wild orchids of Florida, with references to the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains (Brown, 2002)

Epidendrum magnoliae var. magnoliae

INCLUDING Wild orchids of Florida, with references to the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains (Brown, 2002)

Epidendrum magnoliae var. mexicanum

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Epidendrum conopseum var. conopseum

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Epidendrum conopseum var. mexicanum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-17-001:

Epidendrum conopseum   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Amphiglottis conopsea

 

COMMON NAME:
Green-fly Orchid

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Epidendrum conopseum   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Epidendrum magnoliae var. magnoliae   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Epidendrum conopseum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Epidendrum magnoliae

INCLUDING Wild orchids of Florida, with references to the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains (Brown, 2002)
Epidendrum magnoliae var. magnoliae

INCLUDING Wild orchids of Florida, with references to the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains (Brown, 2002)
Epidendrum magnoliae var. mexicanum

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Epidendrum conopseum var. conopseum

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Epidendrum conopseum var. mexicanum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-17-001:
Epidendrum conopseum   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Amphiglottis conopsea