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Tillandsia sessemocinoi Lopez-Ferrari Espejo & P.Blanco

(subgen. Tillandsia)

Publ: Acta Botanica Mexicana 76: 77-88 (2006)

Type: Michoacan: Municipio de Querendaro, 2 km despues de Real de Otzumatlan, rumbo a Milpillas, A. R. Lopez-Ferrari, A. Espejo, J. Ceja & V. A. Pulido E. 2780 (holotype: UAMIZ 52291; Isotypes UAMIZ 50387, UAMIZ 50384, IEB 146431).

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Distribution: MEXICO; Michoacan, Jalisco, Mexico, Morelos

Habitat: grows as an epiphyte in oak and pine-oak forests and mesophytes, 2100 to 3500 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of the new species is dedicated to Martin de Sesse and Lacasta and to José Mariano Mocino, main characters on the Real Botanical Expedition to Nueva Espana and promoters of the first Mexican Flora.

Phenology: It flowers from March to November

Tillandsia sessemocinoi