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Dyckia albolutea Leme & A.S. Farias-Castro

Publ: Phytotaxa 692(1): 24-26 fig. 10 A–N (2025)

Type: BRAZIL. Ceará: Granja, Serra da Timbaúba, distrito de Pessoa Anta, São Miguel, próximo Cachoeira de São Miguel, 104 m elev., 03º21’45.18” S, 41º01’42.13” W, 26 May 2022, A.S. Farias-Castro 3109, cult. E. Leme 10168 (holotype RB, isotype SEL).

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Distribution: BRAZIL: Ceará

Habitat: heliophyte that grows saxicolous on karstic soils in metacarbonate rocky outcrop in Cerrado vegetation, ca 100 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of this new species is a reference to its flowers with the white colored, well-developed filament tube at anthesis and afterwards, in contrast with the yellow color of its corolla, on the basis of the Latin words albus (= white) combined with luteus (= yellow).

Dyckia albolutea