Just because i'm a curious sort...

Den. nobile was first described by Lindley in 1830 (/The Genera and
Species of Orchidaceous Plants/ 79. 1830). I can't get to the actual
text. General Umberto Nobile was born in 1885 in Italy, and traversed
the north pole with Roald Amundson (Norwegian) and Lincoln Ellsworth
(US) in a dirigible in 1926.

Kind of cool, but definitely independent observations.

Rob
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