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Guzmania filicaulis Gouda

Publ: J. Bromeliad Soc. 73(1): 24-27 fig. 1-4 (2023)

Type: Colombia, Antioquia, between Frontino and El Salado, near Parque Nacional Natural “Las Orquídeas”, ca. 2000 m elev., February 2018, Jeffrey Kent s.n. flowered in cultivation at the Utrecht Botanic Gardens April 2021 (holotype U, isotype COL)

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Distribution: Colombia: Antioquia

Habitat: epiphyte in cloud forest, ca. 2000 m. Elev.

Etymology: The epithet ‘filicaulis’ comes from the Latin ‘filum-’ thread- and ‘caulis’ stem, meaning “thread-like stem”, after its thread-like peduncle of the inflorescence

Phenology: flowered in cultivation in April

Guzmania filicaulis