Wild Flowering Plants
Orchidaceae family Ornithidium coccineum (Jacquin) Salisbury ex R. Brown in W. T. Aiton, Hort. Kew. (ed. 2) 5: 210. 1813. Bas.: Epidendrum coccineum Jacquin (1760). Syn.: Maxillaria coccinea (Jacquin) L. O. Williams (1954). West Indian endemic. Common epiphytic herb of the lower montane, montane and cloud montane rainforest and the forest edge, especially southern St. Lucia. Saba, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Greater Antilles (Hispaniola, Puerto Rico), Trinidad. |