ONCIDIUM SPECIES DESCRIBED BY JACQUIN AND THE TYPIFICATION OF ONCIDIUM
Author(s) -
Williams Norris H.,
Dressler Robert L.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1218127
Subject(s) - typification , botany , biology , nomenclature , taxonomy (biology)
Summary The identity of the species of Oncidium described by Jacquin (under Epidendrum) in his Enumeratio (1760) and in his Selectarum stirpium (1763) is discussed. The choice of Epidendrum altissimum as the lectotype of the generic name Oncidium ‐ originally made in 1874 ‐ is upheld.