Dyckia magnifica, a new species of Bromeliaceae (Pitcairnioideae) from Southern Brazil, and the re-establishment of D. tomentosa, of the D. selloa complex

HENRIQUE MALLMANN BÜNEKER; TAMARA PASTORI; PEDRO SCHWAMBACH DE ALMEIDA; JORGE ERNESTO DE ARAUJO MARIATH

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Dyckia magnifica, a new species of Bromeliaceae (Pitcairnioideae) from Southern Brazil, and the re-establishment of D. tomentosa, of the D. selloa complex

HENRIQUE MALLMANN BÜNEKER⁺⁻
TAMARA PASTORI⁺⁻
PEDRO SCHWAMBACH DE ALMEIDA⁺⁻
JORGE ERNESTO DE ARAUJO MARIATH⁺⁻

Laboratório de Anatomia Vegetal (LAVeg), Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, UFRGS, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Laboratório de Anatomia Vegetal (LAVeg), Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Laboratório de Palinologia, Departamento de Botânica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Botânica), Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, UFRGS, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

bromeliads leaf anatomy pollen morphology taxonomy xerophytes Monocots

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We propose the re-establishment of Dyckia tomentosa, after rediscovering its populations, the synonymization of Dyckia polyclada, and Dyckia magnifica as a new species from southern Brazil that is morphologically related to D. tomentosa. Descriptions of external morphology, leaf anatomy and pollen morphology, and comments on species distributions and habitats are provided. The informal species complex in which D. magnifica and D. tomentosa are placed is morphologically re-circumscribed and proposed here as the “Dyckia selloa complex”.

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