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Dyckia kranziana Leme

Publ: Phytotaxa 16: 12-14 (2011)

Type: BRAZIL. Mato Grosso: Rondonópolis, Serra Petrovina, BR 364, km 44 a leste da Pedra Preta, próximo a rodovia, 16º 48’ 02.58” S, 54º 10’ 09.82 W, ca. 500 m, 28 April 2006, Kranz 122, fl. cult. Leme 6826 (holotype RB, isotype HB).

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Distribution: BRAZIL: Mato Grosso

Habitat: terrestrially or rupicolous in “cerrado” vegetation in reddish soils or on rocky outcrops, ca. 500 m. Elev.

Etymology: Dyckia kranziana honors its collector, the bromeliad (Dyckia-Encholirium) grower Walter Kranz from Paraná state, who has introduced many unusual and new Dyckia species into cultivation.

Dyckia kranziana