Epidendrum lineare Jacq.

Enumeratio Systematica Plantarum: 29 (Jacquin 1760).

TYPE. — West Indies, without proper locality, Plumier tab. 182, fig. 1 as “ Serapias foliis linearibus ” (sic), in Plumier (1758). —

Isochilus linearis (Jacq.) R. Br., Hortus Kewensis, ed. 2, 5: 209 (Aiton 1813).

REMARKS

Correll (1941), followed by Schultes (1960), Hamer (1974), Bellone & Chiron (2003), Vásquez et al. (2004) and Chiron & Bellone (2005), argued that I. pauciflorus was referable to a typical form of I. linearis (Jacq.) R. Br., but the diagnosis of the latter differs on several morphological points, among which is the auriculate-alate and briefly stipitate column in I. pauciflorus, a detail clearly shown in its lectotype.