Description originale : S. bulbis subfibrosis, fol. caulinis ovatis petiolatis vaginantibus, nectarii labio inferiore integro. Sloan. jam. t.
147. f. 2. [voir aussi Sloane,
Voy. Jamaica,
1:
250.
1707].
Type : Jamaïque, woods of mount Diablo, 1687-1689, Sloane s.n. (LT: illustration originale t.
147, f. 2
de "
Orchis elatior latifolia, asphodeli radice, spica strigosa" ,
in Sloane,
Voy. Jamaica,
1:
250.
1707 [lectotype désigné par Cribb,
in
Cafferty & Jarvis (ed.),
Taxon
48
: 49. 1999]; TT: BM000589979 [Typotype: "specimen upon which type illustration was based"]).