Seraphyta diffusa (Sw.) Pfitzer ex Fawc. & Rendle 1910

Plant and Flowers Photos by Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne.

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Common Name The Double Cleft Seraphyta

Flower Size Less than 1/2" [less than 1.25 cm]

Found in Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and Brazil as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing reed stem epiphyte with clumped, cane-like, erect or arching, flexuous stems carrying ovate-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, rounded to obtuse, amplexicaul, fleshy coriaceous leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a 12" [30 cm] long, terminal, paniculate inflorescence with many [70 to 300] simultaneouly opening flowers.

Synonyms *Epidendrum diffusum Sw. 1788; Epidendrum tenuiflorum Lindl. 1853; Seraphyta multiflora Fischer & Meyer 1840

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum diffusum; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 572 Hagsater, Soto 2002

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