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genus Sincoraea Ule

(subfam. Bromelioideae)

Publ: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 191 (1908)

Type: S. amoena Ule

Number of species: 11

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Genus Notes:

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 191. 1908.
Type Sincoraea amoena Ule, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 191. 1908. Orthophytum amoenum (Ule) L.B. Sm., Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 126: 33. 1955. Currently considered a synonym of Orthophytum. Named after the mountain Serra do Sincorá, Bahia, Brazil, where the type was collected.
(from Grant & Zijlstra 1998)