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Issue: Vol. 682 No. 3: 23 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-23
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
Page range: 267-273
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 6

Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae)

Botanic Garden, University of Utrecht (U), Utrecht, Netherlands
Taxonomy Poales Bromeliaceae Tillandsioideae Colombia Peru Monocots

Abstract

Two new species of Racinaea are described and illustrated. Diagnoses against their most morphologically similar taxa and illustrations are provided. One of the new taxa is only known from Colombia and the other one from Peru.

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