Billbergia nutans H.Wendl. ex Regel
Taxonomic Notes:
- Cultivated in Berggarten Herrenhausen, Hannover, 1872 (lectotype designated, DR).
Note : The court gardener H. Wendland had cultivated this species in the Herrenhausen garden in Hannover and had published it as a novelty. Some living material had been brought to the garden of the university of Dresden where it had flowered in 1872. No specimen exists in Hannover nor has been hitherto traced in any herbarium. As the plant in DR doubtlessly is clonotypic it is proposed here as the lectotype. —See Till 1995 p. 413-421
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