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Alcantarea heloisae J.R.Grant

Publ: Vidalia Vidalia 1(1): 31-33 (2003)

Type: Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, "Retiro de Triunfo", Triunfo, near Santa Maria Madalena, 22° 03'350" S, 041° 56'980" W, 26 March 1999, J. R. Grant 9903470 & E. Dias, collected sterile, bloomed in cultivation at the Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland (May-August 2002) (holotype HB; isotype US).

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Distribution: BRAZIL; Rio de Janeiro,

Etymology: This species is named in honor of Heloisa Burrowes Raposo Dias (1948-), English teacher and owner of Raposo Idiomas, a language school in Campos dos Goitacazes, RJ. Heloisa, my "mother #2", took great care of me while I was an American Field Service (AFS) exchange student to Brazil in 1985. It is now my great pleasure to dedicate a new species of bromeliad that I collected with her husband Eduardo Dias in 1999 in her honor as "Heloisa's Alcantarea".

Alcantarea heloisae