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Bromelia boqueiranensis Leme & J.A. Siqueira

Publ: Phytotaxa 692(1): 10-12 fig. 3 A–E (2025)

Type: BRAZIL. Bahia: Santo Sé, Boqueirão da Onça, entre Minas do Mimoso e Campo dos Alegre, Serra da Embaúba, 1,177 m elev., 10º 20’ 05” S, 41º 25’ 11” W, 15 May 2010, E. Leme 8297, J.A. Siqueira Filho & A.P. Fontana (holotype RB)

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Distribution: BRAZIL: Bahia

Habitat: terrestrial living deeply sunk in sandy soils in areas covered by high altitude Caatinga vegetation, intermingled by rocky outcrops sheltering Rupestral Fields, forming sparse groups of plants that spread vegetatively by means of long underground rhizomes, ca 1177 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of this new species is a reference to the area where it was discovered, in Boqueirão da Onça, the largest continuous area of Caatinga vegetation, recently transformed in a National Park. The area protects the largest population of jaguar (“onça” in Portuguese) in the Caatinga biome, besides many other endangered species of the fauna and flora

Bromelia boqueiranensis