Pleurothallis aristata Hook., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2(11): 329-330, pl. 15. 1839.

TYPE: Guyana. cultivated in the stove of C.S. Parker, of Liverpool, having been received from Demerara, Parker s.n. (holotype, K; illustration of type).

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Humboldtia aristata (Hook.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 667. 1891.

Muscarella aristata (Hook.) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 105: 96. 2006.

Specklinia aristata (Hook.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase, Lindleyana 16(4): 256. 2001.