See text Laelia rubescens is a species of orchid native to Mexico and Central America.

[1] Laelia rubescens is native to the Central American countries Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and much of Southern/Central Mexico.

[2] It also occurs in the wild in Florida and Cuba as an escapee from cultivation, having been intentionally introduced as an ornamental plant.

[3][4] Laelia rubescens grows in seasonally dry, deciduous forests as an epiphyte and occasionally as a lithophyte at elevations below 1700 meters.

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