Racinaea tetrantha var. aurantiaca

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Racinaea Species: tetrantha Variety: aurantiaca
Search
Google Google Images The Plant List IPNI W3Tropicos

Racinaea tetrantha var. aurantiaca (Grisebach) M.A. Spencer & L.B. Smith, 1993

Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text

Distribution:

Ecuador, Colombia, Northern-Peru, Venezuela
epiphytic in forests
750 - 3300 m

 

 

 

Original Description:

Basionym: Tillandsia aurantiaca Grisebach (1865) Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und von der Georg-Augusts-Universität 1864(1): 16

(Nachr. Konigl. Ges. Wiss. Georg-Augusts-Univ.)

Racinaea tetrantha var. aurantiaca (Grisebach) M.A. Spencer & L.B. Smith (1993) Phytologia  :74(2); fig. 158

(Phytologia)

Synonyms:

• Tussacia fulgens Klotzsch ex Beer, 1857
• Tillandsia aurantiaca Grisebach, 1865
• Catopsis garckeana Wittmack, 1889
• Tillandsia tetrantha var. aurantiaca (Grisebach) L.B. Smith, 1930
• Tillandsia fulgens (Klotzsch ex Beer) Mez, 1935

Literature:

• Luther & Sieff (1997) Selbyana 18(1): 116, 120
• Steyermark, Berry & Holst (1997) Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol.3 :654
• Haugg (1998) Die Bromelie 3: 80-82
• Hase (1999) Die Bromelie 3: 74-75
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :75