Cirrhopetalum gamosepalum & Cirrhopetalum flabellovernis

[kavanaru]

Mike, Thanks a lot!!!

OK, and this all would mean that the correct name of this species should be then Cirrhopetalum flabellovernis as this is the basionym of the species, being Cirrhopetalum lepidum and Cirrhopetalum gamosepalum just synonims...


BTW, my Cirrhopetalum is doing pretty good and will have 5 nice flowers I contacted the nursery and they confirmed that the plant I received had never bloom before, so that this is the first at all for my plant

[Mike O'C]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

Mike, Thanks a lot!!!

OK, and this all would mean that the correct name of this species should be then Cirrhopetalum flabellovernis as this is the basionym of the species, being Cirrhopetalum lepidum and Cirrhopetalum gamosepalum just synonims...


BTW, my Cirrhopetalum is doing pretty good and will have 5 nice flowers I contacted the nursery and they confirmed that the plant I received had never bloom before, so that this is the first at all for my plant

Ramon, not being a taxonomist/botanist I suppose that is correct. The earliest name for this species was Epidendrum flabellum veneris described by Koenig in 1791. This name is not mentioned in Seidenfaden's
cirrhopetalum book 1973 but Seidenfaden and Ormerad transferred Koenig's plant/name to Cirrhopetalum flabelloveneris in 1995 and so that must be where the name change from Cirrhopetalum lepidum to Cirrhopetalum flabelloveneris took place.
References :
Seidenfaden : Notes on Cirrhopetalum Lindl. in Dansk Botanisk Arkiv (1973)
Siegerist : Bulbophyllums and their allies 2001