Epidendrum domesticum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 952. 1753. "Habitat in Indiae orientalis Bataviae arboribus, parasitica." RCN: 6877. Lectotype (Garay in Harvard Pap. Bot. 2: 49. 1997): [icon] " Angurek warna " in Kaempfer, Amoen. Exot. Fasc.: 867, 869. 1712. - Epitype (Goldblatt & Mabberley in Novon 15: 129. 2005): E. Davall in Herb. J.E. Smith, No. 89.42 (LINN-SM). Current name: Belamcanda chinensis (L.) A. DC. (Iridaceae). Note: The name has been associated with the genus Vanilla, probably as a result of Linnaeus reducing it to an unnamed variety of E. vanilla (Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1348. 1763), and is evidently based on the cited Kaempfer reference. However, Garay has recently typified the name using part of Kaempfer’s illustration that he identifies as Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. (Iridaceae). As a consequence, E. domesticum falls into the synonymy of the latter. However, if Belamcanda is subsumed within Iris, as favoured by Goldblatt & Mabberley (in Novon 15: 128-132. 2005), the correct name for E. domesticum is I. domestica (L.) Goldblatt & Mabb.

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E), pp. 490-515 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971