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genus Deuterocohnia Mez

(subfam. Pitcairnioideae)

Publ: Bromeliaceae (part 3) 3(3): 507 (1894)

Type: Dyckia longipetala Baker, Hndb. Bromel. 135. 1889

Number of species: 17
   and 7 infraspecific taxa
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Genus Notes:

in Mart., Fl. bras. 3(3): 430, 506. 1 Feb 1894.
Type Dyckia longipetala Baker, Handb. Bromel.: 135. 17 Aug-15 Oct 1889. Deuterocohnia longipetala (Baker) Mez in Mart., Fl. bras. 3(3): 507. 1 Feb 1894. Currently recognized in the subfam. Pitcairnioideae. See Spencer & Smith (in Bradea 6: 141-146. 27 Nov 1992), Luther (in Selbyana 18: 105. 1997), and here under Abromeitiella. Named in honor of German botanist and bacteriologist Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828-1898). Since there was already a genus Cohnia, the Greek prefix deuterios, second, was placed in front to form a new generic name. In Mez’s treatment of the Bromeliaceae in ‘Flora Brasiliensis’, he described six new genera: Deuterocohnia, Fascicularia, Gravisia, Neoglaziovia, Prantleia, and Wittmackia.
(from Grant & Zijlstra 1998)