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Pitcairnia kranziana Leme

Publ: Phytotaxa 692(1): 37-39 fig. 16 A–N (2025)

Type: BRAZIL. Tocantins: Rio dos Bois, Paredão do Urubu, em afloramento no Cerrado, 272 m elev., 9°13’30.9” S, 48°32’40.2” W, 9 July 2021, W.M. Kranz B-740, cult. E. Leme 10046 (holotype RB)

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Distribution: BRAZIL: Tocantins

Habitat: Saxicole on a more or less vertical rock outcrop, in a shaded site in the Cerrado vegetation, ca 270 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of this new species honors its collector, the Brazilian agronomist Walter Miguel Kranz from Paraná state, who has contributed significantly to the knowledge of Bromeliaceae by the introduction into cultivation of countless bromeliad species, most of them of Pitcairnioideae, which includes many new species

Pitcairnia kranziana