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Fosterella lilliputiana Leme & Forzza

Publ: Phytotaxa 395(3): 154-156 figs. 11 A to F (2019)

Type: BRAZIL. Mato Grosso: Chapada dos Guimarães, on sandstone walls on plateau border, 13 February 1975, G. Hatschbach, W. Anderson, R. Barneby & B. Gates 36110 (holotype MBM!).

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Distribution: BRAZIL:. Mato Grosso

Habitat: saxicolous on vertical sandstone outcrops, in shaded or partially shaded sites inside the forest, nearby or along rivers and waterfalls, 465–800 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of this species is based on the word “Lilliput”, a fictitious island populated by tiny people in the novel “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships”, better known simply as “Gulliver’s Travels” by Irish writer Jonathan Swift, being a reference to the distinctly small stature of F. lilliputiana.

Fosterella lilliputiana