Anacheilium abbreviatum (Schltr.) Withner & P.A.Harding, Cattleyas & Relatives: Debatable Epidendrums: 40 (2004).

* Epidendrum abbreviatum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 3: 107 (1906).
Encyclia abbreviata (Schltr.) Dressler, Brittonia 13: 264 (1961).
Prosthechea abbreviata (Schltr.) W.E.Higgins, Phytologia 82: 376 (1998).
Epidendrum prorepens Ames, Schedul. Orchid. 2: 33 (1923).