Epidendrum leprosum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 38. 1923.
SYNTYPES: Costa Rica. [San José: Carrillo,] La Palma, blühend im Juli–August 1921, C. Wercklé 38 (B, destroyed); C. Wercklé 82 (B, destroyed). Lectotype, selected by Pupulin (2010), tracings of Schlechter's drawings of a syntype, AMES).