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Aspasia
Lindley , Gen. and Sp. Orch. Pl. (1832), 139.
Oncidieae . II, III . Gr. aspasios (glad; delightful), Aspasia (wife of Pericles). In allusion either to the beauty of the flowers or, more probably , to the historic Athenian woman beloved by pericles .
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