Maxillaria brachybulbon Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 55–56, 231. 1923.
TYPE: Costa Rica. Costa Rica. [San José: Moravia,] San Jerónimo, blühend im Mai 1921, C. Wercklé 23 (holotype, B, destroyed; lectotype, selected by Pupulin (2010), tracings of Schlechter's drawings of the holotype, AMES).