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Hechtia espejoana Siekkinen, Hern.-Cárdenas & López-Ferr.

Publ: Systematic Botany 47(1): 194-195 fig. 1,4 (2022)

Type: MEXICO. Puebla, municipio de Jolalpan, en la carretera que va de Tlaucingo a Jolalpan (18 21’51.7”N, 98 49’06.8”W), 872 m, 20 September 2020, A. Espejo-Serna & R. Hernández-Cárdenas 7734# (holotype: UAMIZ!; isotype: MEXU!).

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Distribution: Mexico: Puebla

Habitat: terrestrially and saxicolous in tropical deciduous forests, 850-900 m. Elev.

Etymology: The specific epithet honors Adolfo Espejo Serna, Mexican botanist, leader of the research group of Systematics of Monocotyledons at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, who has made significant contributions to the knowledge of Mexican Bromeliaceae.

Phenology: Plants bloom from August to September.

Hechtia espejoana