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Sincoraea ulei (Louzada & Wand.) Louzada & Wand.

Publ: J. Bromeliad Soc. 66(1): 15 (fig.11) (2017)

Type: BRAZIL. Bahia: Mucugê road to Andaraí, 12o56’41.2”S, 41o17’28.5”W, ca 867 m. 9 April 2008 (fl), R.B. Louzada & M.G.L. Wanderley 91 (holotype SP, isotype HUEFS).

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Distribution: BRAZIL: Bahia

Habitat: It grows rupicolous in xeric environments, frequently exposed to the sun on rocky outcrops and in grassland on rocky fields, ca 870 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of this new species is attributed to Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule (1854–1915), German botanist and explorer, who undertook botanical expeditions to southern and central Brazil at the end of the 19th the century. In Chapada Diamantina, previously known as Serra do Sincorá, Ule discovered a new species of Bromeliaceae and described it in a new genus, Sincoraea (Ule 1908). Later, Smith (1955) synonymized this genus under Orthophytum (Smith 1955).

Sincoraea ulei