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Hohenbergia kollmannii Leme & A.P. Fontana |
Distribution: BRAZIL: Bahia
Habitat: terrestrial on shaded forest floor of steep whatersheds in Atlantic Forest, 285-350 m. Elev.
Etymology: The epithet for this new species honors the botanist Ludovic Jean Charles Kollmann, a specialist in Begoniaceae, Bromeliaceae, and Orchidaceae, of the National Institute of the Atlantic Forest, in Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo state, who is responsible for the discovery and description of numerous new species of the Atlantic Forest biome