OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales

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



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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image of Epidendrum conopseum, Green-fly Orchid

Jim Fowler    jaf_emagnoliae_g4

July-September    Berkeley County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

1" flowers usually green or yellow-green with touches of purplish-green, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

image of Epidendrum conopseum, Green-fly Orchid

Jerry Bright    jeb_mg_1506

August    Marion County    SC

Woodbury Wildlife Management Area

The dark evergreen leathery leaves are 1-4" long and about 1/2" wide, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

image of Epidendrum conopseum, Green-fly Orchid

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeconopseum_biedler1

Month Unknown        SC

Francis Biedler Forest

Most orchid species worldwide are epiphytic, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Epidendrum conopseum, Green-fly Orchid

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeconopseum_biedler1b

Month Unknown        SC

Francis Biedler Forest

Epiphytic not parasitic: its host gives structural support not nourishment, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

 

 

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

 

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2135

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Epiphytic on limbs of trees, especially Magnolia grandiflora, Quercus virginiana, and Taxodium spp., in blackwater river swamps, tidal freshwater swamps, and mesic hardwood hammocks, usually on relatively horizontal limbs mixed with Pleopeltis michauxiana, also rarely in crevices of Altamaha Grit outcrops, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in GA, uncommon in SC, rare in NC

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LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Grayish-green / Yellowish-green with touches of purplish-green on petal tips
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
3 petals, the two lateral similar and a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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