Vriesea catharinensis F.J.Müll.
Status: Synonym
Publ: Gartenflora 42: 738 (1893)
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Taxonomic Notes:
- Considered a synonym of Vriesea procera (Mart. ex Schult. f.) Wittmack var. procera —See Smith & Downs 1977 p. 1206
- Vriesea catharinensis F. Müller was for a long time assigned as a synonym of V. procera (Mez 1934–1935; Smith 1955; Smith and Downs 1977). However, no original material was found and no illustration is available. In the protologue, Müller (1893) described a plant with several stolons, which is the only information on its morphology. As this structure is absent in V. procera, we inferred that V. catharinensis is likely a plant related to V. vagans (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm., a very common species in the Atlantic Rainforest remnants in southern Brazil. —See Uribbe et al. 2020 p. 65
