Cryptanthus venecianus Leme & L.Kollmann
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- The living holotype descendant (cult. E. Leme 7743) is cultivated in the collection of the Refúgio dos Gravatás, in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro. This new species was discovered growing terrestrially in shaded sites covered by Semidecidual Tropical Forest, around the inselberg known as Pedra do Elefante, in the county of Nova Venécia, Espírito Santo state. On the higher parts of the inselberg, where grass-like vegetation predominates, as well as bare granitic outcrops, huge populations of a underscribed Alcantarea species, as well as a large sized Dyckia sp. and Pitcairnia sp. can be observed. On the steep rock surfaces, Vrieseaaff. appariciana E. Pereira & Reitz is predominate. —See Pereira 1971
