Date de publication : Bot. Reg., 9: t. 759. 1823 ["1823", planche datée 01/12/1823].

Homonymie : non Pleurothallis punctata Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg., 21: sub t. 1797. 1835 [planche datée du 01/10/1835], nom. illeg. hom. [≡ Humboltia punctata Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl., 2: 668. 05/11/1891, 'Humboldtia'; = Lepanthes punctatifolia Barb.Rodr., Gen. Sp. Orchid. 2: 55-56. 1882, Pabstiella punctatifolia (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2007] (Brésil [prob. Rio de Janeiro], cultivée)!

Type : "The drawing was taken at Mr. Colvill's Nursery, in the King's Road, from a plant sent from the Governor's garden at Trinidad by Mr. David Lockhart; and is the first of the species that has appeared in our hothouses." [protologue].
Plante envoyée du jardin du gouverneur de Trinidad par Mr. David Lockhart, cultivée à Colvill's nursery (King's road, Londres).