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Wittmackia laesslei (L.B.Sm.) Aguirre-Santoro

Publ: Plant Syst. Evol. 303(online): 21 (2017)

Type: JAMAICA. St. James Parish: Cockpit Country near Sweet Water, 570 m, 16 August 1952, A. Laessle s.n. (holotype IJ, US [photo & fragment])

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Distribution: Jamaica: Cockpit Country

Habitat: epiphyte or rupicolous on forested limestone hills, 550–750 m. Elev.

Etymology: This species was named in honor to Albert M. Laessle, collector of the type specimen.

Wittmackia laesslei