Type : "A very handsome unrecorded species, introduced from the Brazils in 1819. Said to have first flowered in the Duke of Northumberland's garden at Sion House, and since in many collections about town. The drawing was taken at the garden of the Horticultural Society, Hammersmith, where the plant is cultivated in the stove." [protologue].
Brésil, Riedel s.n. (LT:
t. 644 in Bot. Reg., 8: 1822 [désigné par Guimarães
et al., Taxon, 68(5):
981. 30/12/2019]; IT/LT??:
K000329034 [désigné par?]).