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Werauhia hylaeana Leme, Valsko & J.R. Grant

Publ: Phytotaxa 471(1): 33- (Figs. 1–3) (2020)

Type: BRAZIL. Amazonas: Manaus, BR 174, km 9, Ramal Castanheiras, near Sítio Angelim, 81 m elevation, 02° 49’ 24.8” S, 59° 58’ 58.3” W, 17 October 2019, E. Leme 9731, J. Valsko & A. H. Krahl (holotype RB!)

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Distribution: Brazil: Amazonas

Habitat: Epiphytic in more humid places inside areas covered by ombrophilous forest not subject of periodic flooding, ca 80 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of this new species is inspired in the word “Hylea” or “Hylaea”, as a reference to the great South-American pluvial forest in the Amazonian region, where it was discovered. The word “Hylea” was for the first time used by Humboldt & Bonpland (1820) to encompass most of the Amazonian river basin, from the high part of the Orinoco basin in Venezuela, north of Colombia, the Guyanas, the east portion of Ecuador and Peru, the states of Amazonas, Pará and Acre, the lower Tocantins basin to the east up to Turiaçú river in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, in altitudes that rarely exceed 300 m, being the Andes and the Atlantic ocean its natural limits (Cruls 1955, Ducke & Black 1954)

Werauhia hylaeana