Orthophytum roseum Leme
Status: Synonym
Publ: J. Bromeliad Soc. 60(2): 66 (2010)
Type: Brazil, Bahia State, Chapada Diamantina, Palmeira, near Caeté-Açu, Riachinho, leg. R. de Oliveira s. n., fl. cult. Febr. 2008, E. Leme 3439 (Holotype: HB; Isotype: RB).
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Taxonomic Change:
- Considered a synonym of Sincoraea burlemarxii (L.B. Sm. & Read) Louzada & Wand.
Comments: Orthophytum roseum was described as a new species morphologically related
to O. burle-marxii, differing by the size of vegetative and reproductive characters, however, according Louzada and Wanderley (2010), the dimensions cited in the protologue
of O. roseum as diagnostic overlap with those of O. burle-marxii, justifying the
synonymization of O. roseum under O. burle-marxii. —See Louzada & Wanderley 2017 p. 10
