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Bromelia gurkeniana var. funchiana Pereira & Leme

(species gurkeniana)

Publ: Revista Biol. (Lisbon) 45(4): 635 (1985)

Type: Bahia, municipio de Palmeira, estrada Palmeira-Mucuge:. Planta terrestre da caatinga. Leg. Elton M. C. Lane no 516, Luiz A. M. Silva, J. Kent & R L. Frasier, em 13/01/1983. Florida em cultivo em dezembro de 1984. HOLOTYPUS HB.

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Distribution: BRAZIL; Bahia,

Habitat: terrestrial

Etymology: In the fight for the preservation of the natural resources of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, we are pleased when we get an area of permanent conservation in that area and so , we honour with this new variety, Roy Richard Funch, or simply Ruy Funch, as he is generally known.

Bromelia gurkeniana var. funchiana