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Canistrum cappei is a synonym of:

Wittrockia cyathiformis (Vellozo) Leme

Publ: Canistrum - Bromeliads of the Atlantic Forest 67-70,103. (1997)

Type: Lost if in fact a specimen was ever made. No locality is given so from the title of the work and by the field activities of the collector it must be the southern region of Rio de Janeiro State, near the Sao Paulo boarder. Typified by plate of Vellozo, loc. cit. (lectotype).

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Distribution: BRAZIL; Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina ,

Etymology: Botanically, the Latin word cyathus refers to cup-shaped organs, and cyathiformis has this meaning. This word was applied for the first time to this Wittrockia species by the mineiro from Sao Joao Del Rei, Frei Josc Mariano da Conceicao Vellozo (1741-1811), clearly alluding to the cup-shaped inflorescence, which would come to characterize many of the nidularioid complex bromeliads.

Phenology: It flowers from Novcmber to April.

Wittrockia cyathiformis