Pachyphyllum echinocarpon (Sw.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 731. 1826, nom. illeg.

Bas.: Epidendrum echinocarpon Sw., Prodr. 124. 1788, nom. illeg.

TYPE: Jamaica. “Provenit ad latera saxorum arborumque inter muscos in umbrosis montium Jamaicae australis”, O. Swartz s.n. (isotype, W-Rchb Orch 25294).

 

 

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Cymbidium echinocarpon (Sw.) Sw., Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sc. Upsal. 6: 71. 1799, nom. illeg.

Dichaea echinocarpa (Sw.) Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orch. Pl. 208. 1833, nom. illeg.

ACCEPTED NAME

Dichaea pendula (Aubl.) Cogn. in Urb., Symb. Antill. 4: 182. 1903.

Bas.: Limodorum pendulum Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guyane Franc. 2: 819.

TYPE: French Guiana: “habitat in sylvis Comitatus de Gêne”, Aublet s.n. [holotype, P; illustration of type (only vegetative parts of pl. 322, excluding flower details, which represent mixed collections)].