General notes
In August 1995, Jenerova Searight, a participant in the first International Bromeliad Illustration Contest promoted by the Sociedade Brasileira de Bromelias - SBBr, submitted a painting of an amazingly colorful Vriesea then identified as V. pastuchoffiana.
The identification conflicted with the description of that species, so we began a search for more information, but met with little success. By coincidence, many months later, two members of SBBr, Giorgio Croce and Jorge Gastin, took me to visit a private preserve owned by Elisabeth Garlipp, another member of the SBBr, where the same ornamental Vriesea was found on the summit of a forested hill. After analysis of living material I have concluded that it is an undescribed species. —SeeJ. Bromeliad Soc.
