Tillandsia melanocrater L.B.Sm.emend.Gouda
Taxonomic Change:
- Was treated as a variety of T.tricolor Schlcht. & Cham. but the differences are good enough to treat it as a separate species.
Tillandsia tricolor has typical glabrous floral bracts with distinct lepidote apices, while T.melanocrater has glabrous bracts. It is smaller with the inflorecence between the leaves, while in T.tricolor the peduncle of the inflorescence mostly exceeds the leaves. —See Smith & Downs 1977
- Considered a species to its own right —See Gouda 2016d p. 136
Literature references:
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Comments:
- In publishing Morren's Tillandsia melanopus Mez noted two elements without naming either and designated as typical the first which consisted of only one collection, Pfaff 254. An examination of this specimen in the herbarium at Liege shows that it is not separable from T. punctulata. Consequently there is no choice but to reduce typical T. melanopus to synonymy and choose a name for Mez's second element which is a valid species. The number selected as a type under the new species is one of those originally cited by Mez.
