Barfussia platyrhachis (Mez) Manzan. & W.Till (2016)

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia platyrhachis Mez (1896)
• Tillandsia platyrhachis var. alba Rauh & Hirtz. (1985)
• Tillandsia platyrhachis var. magnifica Rauh & von Bismarck (1985)

Tillandsia platyrhachis var. alba Rauh & Hirtz.

Status: Synonym

Publ: Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenw. 53: 5-17. (1985)

Type: Holotype: Rauh and Hirtz, ColI. No.37 571 (Sept. 1975), in the herbarium of the Institute of Systematic Botany of the University of Heidelberg (HEID). near the waterfall of the Rio Coca, 1400 m, Prov. Napo, east-central Ecuador.

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Taxonomic Change:

• Considered conspecific with the type variety —See Luther & Sieff 1994 p. 34