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Orthophytum pseudoestevesii Leme

Publ: Phytotaxa 692(1): 35-37 fig. 15 A–L (2025)

Type: Brazil. Bahia: Guaratinga, entre Buranhém e a divisa com Minas Gerais, ca. 300 m elev., August 2019, J.E. dos Santos s.n., fl. cult. E. Leme 9712 (holotype RB)

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Distribution: Brazil: Bahia

Habitat: saxicolous in shallow soils on horizontal rocky outcrops at the top of inselbegs, or on its nearly bare steep rocky slopes, a heliophile that forms small group of plants scattered in the area, ca 300 m. Elev.

Etymology: The Greek prefix “pseudo” is used to mark something that appears to be one thing but is something else. It indicates here that this new species is a “false” Orthophytum estevesii, its likely closest morphological relative.

Orthophytum pseudoestevesii