Nidularium alegrense Leme & L.Kollmann
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- This new species was found growing as a terrestrial, shade-dweller in a montane Atlantic Forest at about 1,126 m elevation, at the base of Pedra da Caveira da Anta, a granitic inselberg with an elevation of nearly 1,500 m. The habitat of Nidularium alegrense comprises a moist low-forest along a spring, where some terrestrial and epiphytic bromeliads species were observed, like Aechmea pineliana var. minuta M.B. Foster, Billbergia aff. alfonsi-joannis Reitz, Canistropsis billbergioides (Schult. & Schul. f.) Leme, Neoregelia dayvidiana Leme & A.P. Fontana, Neoregelia aff. macrosepala L.B. Sm., Nidularium procerum Lindm., Quesnelia kautskyi C.M. Vieira, Vriesea carinata var. flavominiata Leme, Vriesea lubbersii (Baker) E. Morren, to name few. In the open, rocky habitats towards the summit of Pedra da Caveira da Anta, a grasslike vegetation predominates, where rupicolous and saxicolous bromeliad species thrive in profusion, like a large population of Pitcairnia aff. azouryi Martinelli & Forzza, P. carinata Mez, Alcantarea sp., and a dark leafed form of Vriesea fosteriana L.B. Sm. —See Pereira 1971
