Mormodes skinneri Rchb. f., Gard. Chron. 50. 1869.

TYPE: Messrs. Veitch obtained the plant through the late G.U. Skinner, Esq. from Central America. We have dedicated it to the memory of that gentleman, whose death was a severe loss for Orchidology, G.U. Skinner s.n. (holotype, W).