Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Liliopsida Batsch - monocotyledons |
| order | Asparagales Bromhead |
| family | Orchidaceae Juss. - orchids |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae Kosteletzky |
| tribus | Epidendreae Lindl. |
| subtribus | Pleurothallidinae Lindl. ex G.Don |
| genus | Dilomilis Raf. - dilomilis |
| species | Dilomilis elata (Benth.) Summerh. |