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Pitcairnia loki-schmidtiae Barthlott & Rauh

(subgen. Pitcairnia)

Publ: Bromelie 1987(2): 18-20 (1987)

Type: Holotype B G Bonn 24105, leg. Hannelore Schmidt ( 1981), in (HEID); Isotype: Herb. Bonn terrestrial on hanging rocks in the dry-valley south of Puerto Vallarta (Estado Jalisco), central-Mexico.

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Distribution: MEXICO; Jalisco;

Habitat: terrestrial on hanging rocks

Etymology: The new Pitcairnia is dedicated to Frau Hannelore (Loki) Schmidt, Bonn/Hamburg, not only because she discovered the plant but also as acknowledgment for her stand towards conservation and to the protection of the native plant world. ;

Phenology: Flowers smell like an unripe apple, postfloral bent downwards. Night flowering.

Pitcairnia loki-schmidtiae