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Tillandsia ramon-lopezii Carnevali & I. Ramírez

(subgen. Tillandsia)

Publ: Phytotaxa 660(2): 139-146 fig. 1&2

Type: VENEZUELA. Mérida: Municipio Sucre: vecindades de Lagunillas, unos 1.5–2.5 km al este de la salida a la carretera Lagunillas-Mérida, unos 20 km al SW de Mérida, por la vía Mérida-Barinitas, approx. 8.485469°N, -71.372789°W, 800–850 m, orig. Ramón López in Jan. 2006, fl.in cult. Jan. 2016, G. Carnevali & I.M. Ramírez 7864 (holotype: VEN; isotype: CICY)

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Distribution: VENEZUELA: Aragua, Mérida

Habitat: epiphyte in lowland tropical dry forests, 5–1100 m. Elev.

Etymology: We take great pride in naming this species after Ramón Eduardo López Gutiérrez, from Cabudare, estado Lara in Venezuela, who has collected the species several times and provided us with observations, photographs, and measurements that complemented our own data based on cultivated plants, herbarium specimens, old photographs, and recollections of plants seen long time ago in the field. He is a keen plant observer and grower with a varied collection of Tillandsia, including plants of his now eponymic species.

Tillandsia ramon-lopezii