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Stigmatodon ilhanus Leme & D.R. Couto

Publ: Phytotaxa 576(3): 239-241 figs. 4 a-e (2022)

Type: BRAZIL. Bahia: Guaratinga, Buranhém, Pedra do Ferreiro, conjunto Fazenda Santa Clara, 536 m elevation, 16° 33’ 36.28” S, 40° 00’ 53.68” W, May 2015, A. Ilha s.n., cult. E. Leme 8997 (holotype RB).

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Distribution: BRAZI: Bahia

Habitat: Saxicolous on steap rocky outcrops, ca 535 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of this new species honors the conservationist and climber André Ilha, who has brought countless bromeliad species found in difficult-to-access vertical cliffs from granitic inselbergs of southeastern Brazil to our attention. He documented this new species in the field and provided the specimens used in this study. Distribution and habitat:—Stigmatodon ilhanus is an ephilitic species, living on bare, nearly vertical granitic surfaces of inselbergs located in the district of Buranhém, county of Guaratinga, Bahia state, near the border with Minas Gerais. At the type locality, the heliophytic rosettes are scattered and form small to medium-sized groups of plants.

Stigmatodon ilhanus