Description originale : 24.
Epidendrum (
tuberosum) foliis lato-lanceolatis nervosis membranaceis bulbo innatis, scapo vaginato, nectario cymbiformi bifido.
Helleborine purpurea, tuberosa radice. Plum. spec.
9. [Plumier, Nov. Pl. Amer., Cat. Pl.
9. 1703, fide TL-2,
8067] ic.
186 f. 2 [Plumier, Pl. Amer., 8:
181,
t. 186, f. 2. 20/06/1758, fide TL-2,
8069] [
Bletia purpurea (Lam.) DC. 1841!].
Angraecum terrestre primum. Rumph. amb. 6. p.
112.
t. 52. f. I [Rumphius, Herb. Amboin., 6:
112,
t. 52, f. 1. 1750, fide TL-2,
9784][
Phaius terrestris (L.) Ormerod 1994!].
Habitat in Indiis.
Type : Indonésie [prob. Moluques, Ambon], Rumphius (LT: "
Angraecum terrestre primum"
t. 52, f. 1 in Rumphius, Herb. Amboin., 6:
112. 1750 [désigné par Ormerod
in Austral. Orchid Rev., 59: 14. 1994]).
D'après
The Linnean Plant Name Typification Project: "An illegitimate renaming of
E. terrestre L. (1759). See discussion of the application of both names under
E. terrestre [≡
Phaius terrestris (L.) Ormerod 1994]."