Versieux & Wanderley 2010b (Article) Alcantarea

Delimitation of the Alcantarea extensa complex (Bromeliaceae) and a new species from Espírito Santo, Brazil

Author(s):—L.M. Versieux & M. das Graças Lapa Wanderley

Publication:—Rodriguésia 61(3): . (2010)

Abstract:—The species complex related to Alcantarea extensa is presented and elimited as: A. extensa, A. vinicolor, A.burle-marxii, A. turgida, A. distractila, A. lurida, A. simplicisticha, A. nigripetala, A. mucilaginosa, and A.trepida. Alcantarea trepida, known from Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil, is described as new, and illustrated. It is compared to A. extensa, A. simplicisticha, and A. vinicolor from which it differs by the robust, erect, compound inflorescence with more numerous flowers and by the straight and thicker rachilla.

Keywords:—Atlantic Rainforest, endemism, inselberg, species complex, Tillandsioideae.

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Alcantarea trepida