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Racinaea tillii Manzan. & Gouda

Publ: Phytotaxa 3: 13-18 (2010)

Type: ECUADOR: Napo: Quijos, near San Victor, along the road from Papallacta to Baeza, epiphytic on trees in a pasture, 00°22´S, 77°56´´W, 2700 m, 9 February 2006.W. Till: Iter Aequaorianum IV, Una cum M. Barfuss, M. Bernhard, M. Billensteiner, J. Kronister, E. Mayr, M. Plagg, A. Taurok & B. Wild 21091 (holotype WU, isotype QCNE).

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Distribution: ECUADOR; Napo,

Habitat: n trees bordering a pasture, this area belongs to the cloudy and cool mountain forest, 2400-2700 m. Elev.

Etymology: This Racinaea is named in honor of Walter Till (1956-) a professor of botany at the Fakultätszentrum für Biodiversität, Universität Wien, Austria (WU), our friend and specialist in the Bromeliaceae family, especially the subfamily Tillandsioideae.

Racinaea tillii