Swartz, O. (1800), Orchidernes flagter och arter upstallde. Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 21: 235 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited.)

taxonomic synonym: Epidendrum resupinatum G.Forst. legitimate

• Comment: nom. illeg., nom. superfl., as the epithet resupinata was available in Malaxis in 1800 and thus ought to have been adopted by Swartz.

Willdenow, C.L. (1805), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 4(1): 90-91 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Epidendrum resupinatum G.Forst. legitimate

Lindley, J. (April 1830), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants: 21 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Microstylis rheedei Lindl. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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