- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30355-1
- Publication
- Prodromus Florae Nepalensis, sive Enumeratio Vegetabilium, quae in Itinere per Nepaliam Proprie Dictam et Rgiones Conterminas, Ann. 1802-1803. Detexit atque legit D. D. Franciscus Hamilton, (olim Buchanan) M.D. London
- Collation
- 31
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Orchidaceae
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: pro syn. Don cited Pinalia alba as a synonym of Octomeria spicata D.Don
Remarks
Etymology: Mark Watson [E; pers. comm.] checked Buchanan Hamilton’s manuscript and found that Hamilton derived the genus name “Pinalia” from the then existed Nepalese local name “Bun Pinali’ (not in use now?) for this taxon.