Taxonomie : D'après Romero-González
et al. (Harvard Pap. Bot., 13(1):
196. 2008): "Cogniaux (1898–1902) considered
Cyrtopodium flavum a synonym of
C. andersonii and was followed by all subsequent authors. However, examination of the former’s original illustration and a colored plate of the type material at the Reichenbach herbarium has shown that
C. flavum is identical to
C. polyphyllum. According to Carauta (1973) the valid date of publication of
C. polyphyllum is 1831, and so
C. flavum has nomenclatural priority.
Cyrtopodium flavum is similar and closely related to
C. andersonii: the flowers of both species have a strong scent of soap, but
C. flavum has consistently smaller flowers and the sepals are relatively wide (vs. narrow in
C. andersonii). This species has become naturalized in the state of Florida, United States (Romero-González, 2002: as
C. polyphyllum)."