Prosthechea boothiana(Lindl.) W.E.Higgins

Dollar orchiddollar orchid

WFO wfo-0000283521 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Prosthechea boothiana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. a Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-03 / obs. 175500526
Prosthechea boothiana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. b Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175500488
Prosthechea boothiana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. c Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175500456
Prosthechea boothiana, photographed by Scott Ward
fig. d Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166614121
Prosthechea boothiana, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. e Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29889901
Prosthechea boothiana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. f Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59669130
Prosthechea boothiana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. g Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39650485
Prosthechea boothiana, photographed by Scott Ward
fig. h Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166614160

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Prosthechea boothiana is native: Florida, Mexico Southeast, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti FloridaMexico SoutheastBelizeCubaDominican RepublicGuatemalaHaiti BahamasCayman Is.
Native distribution of Prosthechea boothiana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Cayman Is. CAY
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Diacrium bidentatum Hemsl.
  • Encyclia bidentata (Hemsl.) Hágsater & Soto Arenas
  • Encyclia bidentata subsp. erythronioides (Small) Hágsater
  • Encyclia boothiana (Lindl.) Dressler
  • Encyclia boothiana subsp. erythronioides (Small) Hágsater ex Christenson
  • Encyclia boothiana var. erythronioides (Small) Luer
  • Epicladium boothianum (Lindl.) Small
  • Epicladium boothianum var. erythronioides (Small) Acuña
  • Epidendrum bidentatum Lindl.
  • Epidendrum boothianum Lindl.
  • Epidendrum erythronioides Small
  • Hormidium boothianum (Lindl.) Brieger
  • Prosthechea boothiana var. erythronioides (Small) Nir
  • Prosthechea boothiana var. erythronioides (Small) W.E.Higgins
  • Pseudencyclia boothiana (Lindl.) V.P.Castro & Chiron

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.