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Bromelia ferox Esteves

Publ: Bromelie 2014(2): 86-92 (2014)

Type: Ex cult., fl. in Nov. 2010 in the coll. of Esteves Pereira (Goiânia, Brazil), E. Esteves Pereira E-507 (holo: UFG 47-926). Brazil, Minas Gerais, Montezuma, North of Minas Gerais State, along the road to Mortugaba, Bahia, in open Cerrado vegetation, 1080 m, 1999.

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Distribution: Brazil. Bahia, Pernambuco

Habitat: The drier region of northeastern Brazil, a mixture between Cerrado and Caatinga with its characteristic spiny vegetation, is inhabited by several Bromeliaceae, it grow dispersed or in small groups, over rupicolous formations and stony areas or inhabit sandy soils in open areas.

Etymology: From the Latin word ferox = wild, referring to the clawlike teeth of the leaves.

Bromelia ferox