Vriesea warmingii E.Morren
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- Nowadays the Warming species is assumed to be restricted to the reported region of Barra de Guaratiba because the neighboring ecosystems of similar nature have been completely destroyed by urban expansion. It is likely that the type specimen collected by Glaziou came from the lowland forest area very near to the then much smaller imperial city of Rio de Janeiro.
General notes: In 1880, the director of the Imperial Gardens of Rio de Janeiro, August Glaziou, introduced to Europe an ornamental vriesea collected in Brazil but without an accurate description of the exact place of collection. It flowered for the first time during September 1882 and two years later it was described by Edouard Morren as Vriesea warmingii, honoring Johann E.B. Warming (1841-1924), professor of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Copenhagen.
Transferred to the genus Tillandsia in 1888 by J.G. Baker, it was returned to Vriesea in 1935 by C. Mez, although he considered it a synonym of V. ensiformis (Vellozo) Beer. In 1943, L.B. Smith treated it as a variety of that species.
On the basis of newly collected material, at first supposed to be a new species, we re-identified the Warming species, verifying enough differential characteristics to reestablish its original status as conceived by Morren. —See J. Bromeliad Soc.
