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genus Neoglaziovia Mez

(subfam. Bromelioideae)

Publ: Bromeliaceae (part 3) 3(3): 426 (1894)

Type: Bromelia variegata Arruda da Camara, Diss. Pl. Brasil. 7. 1810.

Number of species: 3

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Genus Notes:

in Mart., Fl. bras. 3(3): 180. 1 Nov 1891.
Type Bromelia variegata Arruda, Diss. pl. Brazil.: 7. 1810. Neoglaziovia variegata (Arruda) Mez in Mart., Fl. bras. 3(3): 427. 1 Feb 1894. Currently recognized in the subfam. Bromelioideae. Named in honor of August François Marie Glaziou (1828-1906), French architect, botanist, and superintendent of the Public Botanical Garden (Paseo Publico) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Glaziou corresponded with Morren, Baker, and Mez sending each specimens from Brazil that they in turn described. Neoglaziovia is not a renaming of a bromeliad ‘Glaziova’. Rather, since both Glaziova Bureau, Adansonia 8: 30. 1868 (Bignoniaceae) and its illegitimate homonym Glaziova Mart. ex Drude in Mart., Fl. bras 3(2): 395. 1881 (Arecaceae) were already in existence, placing the Greek word neo, new, in front of Glaziou’s name was a simple way to form a new generic name.
(from Grant & Zijlstra 1998)