Prosthechea fragrans(Sw.) W.E.Higgins

WFO wfo-0000283549 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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 fragrans, photographed by Emily Franzen
fig. a Emily Franzen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-14 / obs. 172659033
Prosthechea fragrans, photographed by carnifex
fig. b carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31498053
Prosthechea fragrans, photographed by Roger A. Morales-Flores
fig. c Roger A. Morales-Flores, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179166860
Prosthechea fragrans, photographed by Lesley Aguirre
fig. d Lesley Aguirre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119117703
Prosthechea fragrans, photographed by Geoff Shuetrim
fig. e Geoff Shuetrim, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29255362
Prosthechea fragrans, photographed by carnifex
fig. f carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31498055
Prosthechea fragrans, photographed by Lesley Aguirre
fig. g Lesley Aguirre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119117715
Prosthechea fragrans, photographed by Roger A. Morales-Flores
fig. h Roger A. Morales-Flores, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179166837

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Prosthechea fragrans is native: Mexico Southwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico SouthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Prosthechea fragrans, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Southwest MXS NORTHERN AMERICA

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.

Flowering 33 in flower of 34 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Prosthechea fragrans observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 33 of 34 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 14 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.

  • Anacheilium fragrans (Sw.) Acuña
  • Encyclia fragrans (Sw.) Dressler
  • Epidendrum chimborazoensis Schltr.
  • Epidendrum fragrans Sw.
  • Epidendrum fragrans var. ionoleucum (Hoffmanns.) Barb.Rodr.
  • Epidendrum fragrans var. ionoleucum (Hoffmanns. ex Rchb.f.) Barb.Rodr.
  • Epidendrum fragrans var. ionoleucum Hoffmanns.
  • Epidendrum fragrans var. magnum Stein
  • Epidendrum fragrans var. pachypus Schltr.
  • Epidendrum ionoleucum Hoffmanns.
  • Epidendrum ionoleucum Hoffmanns. ex Rchb.f.
  • Epidendrum lineatum Salisb.
  • Epidendrum vaginatum Sessé & Moc.
  • Prosthechea fragrans f. alba L.C.Menezes

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. 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.