Leme 1991h (Article) Wittrockia

An Addition to the Genus Wittrockia

Author(s):—E.M.C. Leme

Publication:—Journal of the Bromeliad Society 41(4): 147-154. (1991)

Abstract:—Charles Jacques Edouard Morren was the first to portray this species. In September 1885, through his delicate painting, he recorded the name Nidularium leucophoeum. He neither described it, however, nor indicated any element of its natural origin. In 1829, based exclusively on Morren’s painting, J.G. Baker then described Karatas leucophoea, which C. Mez was to transfer to the genus Aregelia in 1896. Finally, in 1939, Lyman B. Smith moved it to the genus Neoregelia. This is how we know it today: Neoregelia leucophoea (leuco phaeus, meaning dark gray). To this point, nothing more is known about the species except for brief references by L.B. Smith in a 1984 article in this journal with a reproduction of the lovely painting by Morren (fig. 1)

Published names (1):

Wittrockia leucophoea*
* synonyms or not accepted names are marked