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Werauhia maculata Espejo-Serna, López-Ferrari, Aguilar-Rodr., Díaz Jim.

Publ: Phytotaxa 446(2): 129- (fig. 1) (2020)

Type: MÉXICO, Tabasco, mpio. de Huimanguillo, Cerro de las Flores, Villa de Guadalupe, 17°22’23.57” N, 93°37’42.57” W, 833 m a. s. l., ecotone of tropical montane cloud forest and evergreen tropical forest, rocky wall, May 6, 2018 (fl), P. A. Aguilar-Rodríguez, P. Díaz Jiménez, M. C. MacSwiney G. & Z. Vallado Negroe PA0015 (holotype: UAMIZ, isotype: UJAT) (Fig. 2)

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Distribution: MEXICO. Tabasco

Habitat: Rupicolous on rocky walls in tropical montane cloud forest and evergreen tropical forest, 750-840 m. Elev.

Etymology: The specific epithet ‘maculata’ refers to the conspicuously large dark purple spots on the abaxial surface at the base of the leaves. Distribution, habitat and phenology: Werauhia maculata is until now only known from the municipality of Huimanguillo in the state of Tabasco, Mexico (Fig. 3); however, it is likely to be present in other adjacent locations of the sates of Chiapas and/or Oaxaca. Plants of the new taxon grow rupicolous on the edge of the talus, exposed to the sun, and forming groups of numerous individuals, and grow together with other bromeliad species such as Pitcairnia recurvata, Pitcairnia imbricata and Werauhia nutans, between 700 and 1000 m a.s.l. elevation. It flowers from April to July

Werauhia maculata