- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:325523-2
- Publication
- Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London
- Collation
- 10: t. 840
- Date of Publication
- 1 Nov 1824
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Orchidaceae
Type Information
- Locality
- This fine new species of Catasetum was brought, in 1822, from Bahia de St. Salvador, in Brazil, to the Horticultural Society (in London), by Mr. George Don.
- Distribution Of Types
- Bahia (Brazil, Southern America)
Nomenclatural Notes
(as Claveringi)
Remarks
Eponymy: We have named the species in compliment to Captain Clavering, the commander of His Majesty's Sloop of war, the Pheasant, in which the Horticultural Society's collector was carried from the coast of Africa to South America