- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:29728-1
- Publication
- Transactions, of the Horticultural Society of London
- Collation
- 1(6): 291
- Date of Publication
- after 4 Feb. 1812
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Orchidaceae
Remarks
For his new genus name Ibidium, Salisbury did not provide a genus diagnosis or description. On p. 292, within the protologue of I. crystalligerum, he mentioned: Neottia orchioides. Sims in Bot. Mag. n. 1036. cum Ic. .… As the original Neottia of Dodonaeus is a legitimate genus, parasitic on the roots of trees, I have adopted a name for these plants, suggested by the late Mr. Dryander, from the resemblance of their anther to the head of an Ibis. According to Werner Greuter (B; pers. comm.), the statement provides the reason for the name choice rather than a description of the genus; and also, it does not state in what way the plant to be named resembles an ibis, nor what the ibis looks like.