Dichaea calyculata Poepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 2: 4. 1838.

TYPE: Peru. Crescit cum praecedentibus [… supra arbores Peruviae Orientalis ad Pampayaco]. Floret Julio. S. Poeppig & L. Endlicher s.n. (holotype, W; illustration of type).

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Epithecia calyculata (Poepp. & Endl.) Schltr., Orchis 9: 26. 1915.

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Dichaea coriacea Barb. Rodr., Gen. Sp. Orchid. 2: 181. 1881.

Epithecia coriacea (Barb. Rodr.) Schltr., Orchis 9: 25. 1915.

SYNTYPES: Brazil: [Río de Janeiro]: dans les montagnes de Rodeio. Fleurit en Octobre. J. Barbosa Rodríguez s.n. (not found; drawing of the syntype; tracings of the drawing from the syntype); Brazil: Santos, Herb. Brasil. Regnellian. Museo bot. Stokcholm, Mosén 2957 (S).

Dichaea australis Cogn., Fl. Bras. 3(6): 498. 1906.

Epithecia australis (Cogn.) Schltr., Orchis 9: 25. 1915.

SYNTYPES: Brazil: S. Catharina: Blumenau, Gull s.n. (?); Müller s.n. (B, destroyed); Brazil. in arboribus prope S. Paulo, Comm. Geogr. e Geol. S. Paulo, A. Cogniaux 1780 in herb. Havn. (BR?; illustration of the syntype).

Dichaea caveroi D.E. Benn. & Christenson, Icon. Orchid. Peruv. pl. 629. 2001.

TYPE: Peru. Condorcanqui, from area closely surrounding the Border Guard Post 'Alfonso Ugarte' PV-3, 1300 m, M. Cavero B. ex Bennett 6441 (holotype, Herb. Bennettianum; illustration of type).

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